Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:20:36AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > ...or UML: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > > > /me catches up on three weeks of list mail, sorta. > > Welcome back. > > Have

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > [ a rather painful option ] > > > > Install RedHat in a chroot and run the redhat-needing app there. > > ...or UML: http://user-mod

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: ... > ...or UML: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > /me catches up on three weeks of list mail, sorta. Welcome back. Have you used it? Is it as easy as setting up chroot environment? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [ a rather painful option ] > > Install RedHat in a chroot and run the redhat-needing app there. ...or UML: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ /me catches up on three weeks of list mail, sorta. Pea

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Paul Sargent wrote: > ... > > Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed, > > I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed > > by the software house on Debian. So when it ca

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote (0.91): > the difference is almost 100% in shared libraries used. You have few > options: Also, C++ support is amongst the worst culprit in the shared library dance... according to the LSB, if you want to distribute C++ applications, yo

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Sargent wrote: ... > Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed, > I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed > by the software house on Debian. So when it came time to build our box we > replicated their systems and used Debian

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:44:45AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > It looks to me like a library incompatibility issue. Differences in the > way the libc handles malloc can cause weird problems[...] Maybe I was being naive, but I thought such things were reasonably constant. Oh well. > The s

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Sargent wrote: > This might not be classed as a debian problem per-se, but I'm > wondering if anybody here has any suggestions to get me out of this > hole, a hole which is probably more political than technical. Maybe > somebody else has been in a similar situation. It l

Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi People, This might not be classed as a debian problem per-se, but I'm wondering if anybody here has any suggestions to get me out of this hole, a hole which is probably more political than technical. Maybe somebody else has been in a similar situation. I'm in charge of a Linux Box which we use