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 QAA28634 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:53:30 -0700 Message-Id: <200002282255.OAA07382@milano.cup.hp.com> To: willy@thepuffingroup.com Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP-UX application support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:04:46 PST." <20000228170446.Z9944@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:55:49 -0800 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: 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? > 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. grant Grant Grundler Unix Development Lab +1.408.447.7253