On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com
> wrote:

> cinap did years ago for linux emu
>
> http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/lbun/mklbun
>
> which packages linuxemu, the linux exec you want and the
> required libs all in an rc bundle that you can execute
> as a regular program
>
> in:
> http://9hal.ath.cx/magic/webls?dir=/usr/cinap_lenrek/lbun
>
> you have lbuns for svn, bash and others that just work on Plan 9
>

Sounds handy for those programs you just *must* have.  Sometimes I want a
reasonable web browser on Plan 9 (where no web browser is a reasonable
idea).


>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:21 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the
> > shared library discussions we've had on this list.
> >
> > "A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to
> > automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies
> > (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run
> > out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated
> > work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with
> > dependency version hell. "
> >
> > OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the
> > fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros.
> >
> > So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex
> > that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the
> > program!
> >
> > Un-beeeeee-lievable.
> >
> > The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems
> > not to apply in software nowadays.
> >
> > ron
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Federico G. Benavento
>
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