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From: heroxbd@×××××.com
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix on a symlink?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:05:13
Message-Id: 86mxsfu9ix.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Prefix on a symlink? by Elmar Hinz
1 Hey Al,
2
3 Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> writes:
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5 > I want to distribute a prefix based product to different customers,
6 > but my home directory (/home/elmar/) is compiled into it.
7 > Would a symlink work to solve this?
8 > mkdir /home/elmar/gentoo
9 > sudo ln -s /home/elmar/gentoo/ /opt/gentoo
10 > Then do bootstrapping in /opt as elmar?
11
12 Take a look at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/4502/.
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14 The most non-trivial part is the runtime library loading. In prefix, we
15 have the library pathes hard compiled into the binaries. Moving them
16 requires a recompilation.
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18 --
19 XU Benda
20 Research Center for Neutrino Science
21 Tohoku University
22 JAPAN
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24 http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix on a symlink? Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com>