On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:14:47PM +0000, bubba wrote: > Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in > news:20100215093037.ga21...@sdf.lonestar.org: > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0000, bubba wrote: > >> Sorry to be so short with the answer > >> > >> I would like a port :> please > > > > why? > > > > it says at the URL I gave you that the sources compile without > > any changes on OpenBSD. > > > > did you even try? it's not that hard to make a port. > > > > If it is that easy to make a port, why has noone made a port for Bionc?
maybe no one else wanted it but you? why should other people make what you want? > > > Below are the directions that include the Linux packages. This is where I > start to get lost. Making BSD run Linux binaries. This page assumes that > we all know how to compile correctly. Sounds like a change to BSD to me. > Thanks for the help I will keep reading untill I figure this out. > > 1.3 OpenBSD > > from http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/BSD_Linux-Compat_howto.html > > For some detailed installation instructions, have a look at the Linux > Compat in the OpenBSD FAQ Setup. Following installation steps are needed > : > > ? At the default Kernels Linux Compat is already included in the Kernel, > but not enabled. Enable it at runtime with ?sysctl kern.emul.linux=1?. > And make it persistent after boot by comment to the ?#kern.emul.linux=1? > in /etc/sysctl.conf > > ? Download the required Linux Packages. - I have used the Fedora Base > Package from OpenBSD. Unpack the package to /emul and make a link ?ln -s > /emul/fedora /emul/linux? > > ? Install a OpenBSD BOINC client from my Website. After the installation, > stop the BOINC client. > he probably says to use Linux compat, because, afaik, you will get served Linux binaries from the job server (at least for some jobs). this was the case when I used to run some DNA folding client. so, maybe another reason there isn't an OpenBSD port, is because most OpenBSD users don't like "random" binaries being run on their system? why don't you consider asking the guy who put up the URL above to make a port? he probably knows more about this software and the issues involved than people on po...@. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
