Bug#539315: executable-not-elf-or-script test should know about jars
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> My major concern is non-Linux architectures - jarwrapper relies on
> binfmt-support. Last I checked (a year or more ago) it wasn't available
> on kfreebsd (nor hurd).
> While it appears to have built there now its description still gives
> me feeling of it being "Linux-only". Though, I hope Colin can clarify
> binfmt-support's situation on non-Linux archs.
I tried to arrange that the general design should be amenable to a
non-Linux implementation. That said, it's true that nobody has so far
got round to coming up with one. I would expect it to be fairly trivial
to write a Hurd implementation, seeing as binfmt_misc is really just a
special case of translators; I don't know what it would take to
implement it on kFreeBSD.
I'd enthusiastically welcome patches from interested developers of
non-Linux ports, although I'm not likely to have time to do it myself.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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