From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA29124 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:28:43 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:26:34 -0500 To: Grant Grundler Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP-UX application support? Message-ID: <20000228182634.C9944@thepuffingroup.com> References: <20000228170446.Z9944@thepuffingroup.com> <200002282255.OAA07382@milano.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200002282255.OAA07382@milano.cup.hp.com>; from Grant Grundler on Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:55:49PM -0800 List-ID: On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:55:49PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote: > willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote: > > > > And, what about the install location of HP-UX shlibs required for these > > > 64-bit (and 32-bit?) HP-UX applications? > > > > If we use a dynamically linked application, they would need to be placed > > in the same location that HP/UX requires them to be. > > On HP-UX "SHLIB_PATH" envirment variables helps the dynamic linker > find shared libaries. Something equivalent for linux? We would also use the HP/UX dynamic linker --- I don't want to write a dynamic SOM linker. The Linux ld.so uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and some other interesting things -- man 8 ld.so for more details). > > However, > > it wouldn't be the recommended way; packaging products as rpm or dpkg > > (depending which distribution we pick) would be the preferred way to go. > > If we can make .depot installs work, we could pull alot of stuff > from the porting center for starters. And it would also allow folks > to publish binaries for both OS's in a common format. That might not > be interesting to "real" linux hackers. But to folks using HP-UX, it > would make the transition to linux easier. I'm not against it, I'm just not terribly excited about it. I don't know much about packaging formats and issues people have there. I guess that having alien understand depot files is the right approach, but I really don't know.