On Jan 14,  4:24am, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Joachim_K=F6nig?= wrote:
} 
} Now that pkgsrc has a powerful emulation handling infrastructure
} I'd like to know if it is possible to have different emulation roots
} installed in parallel (for a given emulation, e.g. linux) and select
} the emulation root for running a foreign binary at runtime, e.g.
} having
} 
}   /emul/suse9
}   /emul/suse10
}   /emul/debian-sarge
}   /emul/debian-etch
}   ...
} 
} and let the emulation root be specified at runtime, e.g. by an
} enivronment variable (LINUX_EMUL_ROOT?). From looking
} at the sources, this does not seem to be possible, but I might
} have overlooked it.
} 
} Would be easy to add such a functionality or is the fixed emulation root
}  hardwired in many places?

     Inside the kernel...  The kernel looks in /emul/<emulated OS>, so
you would have to somehow convince the kernel to have a per binary
emulation root.

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