Subject: Re: A new user's comments
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/1995 13:49:38
On Thu, 1 Jun 95 11:51:47 PDT
"Scott L. Burson" <gyro@zeta-soft.com> wrote:
> Yow! So *that's* what union filesystems are. Actually, I only have one
> machine -- I presume it will work to just symlink `lib*{.so*,.a}' from the
> NetBSD `/usr/lib' to the SunOS one?
Why don't you just put (like the manpage suggests) the Sun libraries in
`/sun/lib' (note that `sun' is the same length as `usr') and edit the
SunOS ld.so that you place in NetBSD's /usr/lib, replacing all
occurrences of `usr' with `sun'...that has _always_ worked for me, and I
just mount the SunOS `/usr' partition on `/sun' under NetBSD. Problem
solved! As for editing ld.so, I've used vi (sick as that may sound), and
it works quite nicely. It also keeps the SunOS libs out of NetBSD's
`standard' filesystem namespace.
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