Re: running autoconf in chrooted environments

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/07/2016 10:15 PM, Peter Crady wrote:
> This may be a stupid question but is there a good way to run autoconf in a 
> chrooted environment? From what I can tell the AS_UNAME function calls uname 
> which gets information about the base kernel that is installed and not the 
> kernel that is installed in the chrooted environment.

The kernel for the chroot environment is identical to the host kernel.

> Is there a function that does the same thing as AS_UNAME without actually using 
> uname

With UTS namespaces on Linux, it is possible to influence what uname 
returns, within reason.

In general, it is not a good idea to lie too much about the nature of 
the system because too much will break.

Florian