[gobolinux-users] rootless on non X86

[hisham.hm at gmail.com]

On 6/8/07, John Griessen <john at foseda.com> wrote:
> Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> > Yes. I use it on Linux-PPC, and even on Mac OS X-PPC, though you need
> > to install some extra GNU packages (listed in the Rootless page) to
> > use it in a BSD-based system:
> > http://gobolinux.org/index.php?page=rootless
> >
> > -- Hisham
>
> Wow, thanks.  All three -- BSD on Sparc, debian on Mac, and Fink on OSX!

Yeah, Gobo Rootless is actually a way to get a consistent
"command-line interface" throughout these systems. :)

> This means it is great for promoting open source hardware and embedded
> software design
> tools to engineers that mostly use Windows because the Corp. installs it on
> the computers
> they give them.
>
> What does the limitation about making valid binary packages mean?  You can
> compile
> packages to run in your rootless, but not ready to distribute?

Yes, because they are often dynamically linked to libraries in the
"host" system -- a binary package built in OSX/PPC will only work in
OSX/PPC; a package built using rootless on some Linux distro may only
work on that version of that distro, etc.

> BSD on Sparc needs these, right?
>   * GNU Bash
>      * GNU CoreUtils
>      * GNU Sed
>      * GNU Wget

Yes.

-- Hisham