Re: Building a Linuxulator userland from source

CentOS has been replaced already successfully with Ubuntu and Devuan. On
the FreeBSD forums there are a couple of nice tutorials. BTW if we can use
even different user lands,we will be even happier.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 1:04 PM Trenton Schulz <trenton@norwegianrockcat.com>
wrote:

>
> Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> writes:
>
> >
> > I assume/hope that's a minor risk. /usr/local is not in the
> > standard
> > search paths of the toolchain, so, must be added explicitly. A
> > build
> > system doing that without being requested to do so would be
> > pretty much
> > broken. Furthermore, the toolchain is built
> > --with-sysroot=/compat/linux
> > so prepends that to all the system search paths.
> >
> > Configure scripts finding *tools* in FreeBSD's /usr/local
> > *might* be a
> > risk. Not an issue building with poudriere (the build jail will
> > only
> > have what we want), but maybe an issue when someone builds the
> > ports in
> > a live system.
> >
> > Well, we will see :) At least, I already have the first ports
> > building
> > fine using shell and make from the Linux userland, e.g. here:
> >
> https://github.com/Zirias/zfbsd-ports/blob/linux/sysutils/linux-man-db/Makefile
>
> This is really fascinating work, and I see value in this even if
> some other way of doing things eventually replaces the Centos-7 items.
>
> Some of this has a bit of overlap with Gentoo prefix
> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix), where one puts the
> bare bones of a Gentoo distro under a "prefix" (for example,
> /compat/linux), but then you can use Gentoo's portage
> infrastructure to build the other parts of the system.
>
> I imagine, you are maybe thinking of your own set of linux-* in
> the ports tree, but this might also be useful area to borrow from?
>
> Anyway, I'll lurk back into the shadows to see how this develops.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Trenton
>
>

-- 
Mario.