linux_base-f8/Linux emulation notes

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:40:17 +0400
Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:06:41 -0500 (CDT) Sean C. Farley wrote:
> 
> > Here are some general notes about linux_base-f8 and linux emulation
> > (mostly) in general.  Other than these notes, almost (see #7) all
> > appears to work for me with RELENG_7 (after latest commit today),
> > linux_base-f8 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16.  Thank you.
> 
> Sean, thank you for your testing and feedback!
> 
> > 1. I noticed that linux-glib conflicts at least with the glib20.mo files
> >    and glib2.sh.  Is linux-glib even needed if linux_base-f8 is
> >    installed?
> 
> > Messages from acroread8:
> > rm: cannot remove `/home/sean/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Preferences/mozilla/prefs.js': Function not implemented
> 
[big snip]

This error is caused by:
(rm): syscall fstatat64 not implemented

> > Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: not well-formed (invalid token)
> > Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: not well-formed (invalid token)  
>
> This seems to be a result of recent config changes of fontconfig and
> should go away with new f8 ports.
>

I just deleted conf.d and the error disappeared without any noticeable ill
effects.

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Gary Jennejohn