Installing linux libraries not in /usr/ports

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Fri Jun 29 05:55:49 UTC 2007


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:58:59 +0400
Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> > Anyway, my actual problem wasn't with the rpm or not
> > rpm (I was going to end up finding it anyway...it's been a while I *had* to go
> > into rpm world), but what is the best approach to installing this - chroot to
> > the linux subsystem and install from there? It seems rpm is already installed
> > in my system (BSD, not linux subsystem) ... should I use that ?   
> 
> Well, you may (update your ports tree and) install it from the port
> (devel/linux-libsigc++20). ;-)

:D cool . Another fine example of why OSS is the best approach IMHO.

$ less /usr/ports/devel/linux-libsigc++20/Makefile 
# New ports collection makefile for:    devel/linux-libsigc++20
# Date created:                         28 Jun 2007
# Whom:                                 Boris Samorodov <bsam at FreeBSD.org>
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/devel/linux-libsigc++20/Makefile,v 1.1 2007/06/28 17:44:14 bsam Exp $

thanks again :)
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