smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Alex wrote:

>
> The glibc you have might just do fine.  Just make a symlink from the one
> you want to the one you have and try!

Jim Stapleton wrote:

> The problem is I don't already have one, though there is a reply to my
> other post that I'll be looking at in a few minutes, maybe something
> will be there. I updated the locate db, and tried to locate "glibc",
> but I only found documentation, and a few bin (not lib) compat files
> that look like they are meant to upgrade something, but creat no
> glibc. What I was considering was linking my "libc.so.6" file (no "g")
> to a glibc file in compat.
>
glibc is the name of the "package" (gnu libc) but the actual library is 
called libc.so.?, at least on the Linux machine I just looked at.  Are 
you sure the app is looking for glibc?  Trying to link the 
compat/linux/lib/libc -> glibc is worth a try (just don't link to the 
FreebSD libc), but I don't think it's right.  Generally, all libraries 
have to start with "lib" or the linker doesn't know how to find them.

--Alex