Re: Alive?

[Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>]

According to Hamish Moffatt:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:32:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:10:23AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > I envisage a /compat/debian tree, which would be like / to linux.
> > > Ie /compat/debian/usr/bin, /compat/debian/usr/share/doc etc.
> > > 
> > > However, I don't know if FreeBSD will let us do this. Although we could
> > > easily move /usr/bin to /compat/debian/usr/bin, this would not work for
> > > /usr/lib and /usr/share, whose paths are probably hardcoded into binaries.
> > > Ideally, the kernel would search /compat/debian for the stuff first
> > > (or /compat/linux). I don't know if it does, though -- /compat/linux might
> > > be intended only for system libraries (libc, libm, etc) and not for
> > > binaries.
> > 
> > 	Could we build these by-hand and have the configuration|build
> > 	script look for our DebianBSD (linux) binaries in /some-
> > 	/compat/debian/library/path?  Then every BSD binary would work
> > 	and so would all the Debian user-side tools.
> 
> The idea was to avoid rebuilding any packages, though.
> 
> 

	It's time to ask some questions about the Linux packages 
	suite.  Does dpkg allow the user to install the src code
	in some /usr directory; then build and install the binary
	after it's been built?  ...Or does dpkg just install the
	binary (and any ancillary files?

	I very rarely just install a binary; I prefer building 
	from source.

	I understand that any pre-built Linux//Debian binaries
	could pretty easily just-drop-in  to /compat/debian/*;
	which is fine.  But for hackers who *prefer* to build
	from scratch, ... (?)

	Sorry if I'm not in-sync here.

	gary

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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service Unix