linux_base-f8/Linux emulation notes

[Roman Divacky]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:37:31PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:40:17 +0400
> Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:06:41 -0500 (CDT) Sean C. Farley wrote:
> > 
> > > Here are some general notes about linux_base-f8 and linux emulation
> > > (mostly) in general.  Other than these notes, almost (see #7) all
> > > appears to work for me with RELENG_7 (after latest commit today),
> > > linux_base-f8 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16.  Thank you.
> > 
> > Sean, thank you for your testing and feedback!
> > 
> > > 1. I noticed that linux-glib conflicts at least with the glib20.mo files
> > >    and glib2.sh.  Is linux-glib even needed if linux_base-f8 is
> > >    installed?
> > 
> > > Messages from acroread8:
> > > rm: cannot remove `/home/sean/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Preferences/mozilla/prefs.js': Function not implemented
> > 
> [big snip]
> 
> This error is caused by:
> (rm): syscall fstatat64 not implemented

jfyi.. this syscall(s) are going to be commited in a week.... it's already
been implemented and kib@ is just waiting for "native *at" to settle
down a little...

just wait :)

roman