Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Thu Dec 13 01:07:18 PST 2007


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:33:18 -0500
Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:

[lots of discussion snipped]
> I really wish that ports management would go on the record and make a 
> definite ruling, that all linux images should install to the 
> /compat/linux tree.  If this would be the case, then nI would myself go 
> about fixing the horde of software that violates this.  I said horde, 
> and I sure meant it.
>

I agree with this whole-heartedly.

Interestingly, there's already a LINUXBASE which points at
/compat/linux. Why all Linux-based ports aren't required to
or automatically use this is a mystery to me.

Just my 2 Euro-cents.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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