From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 20: 6:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CC8837B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 71904 invoked by uid 100); 25 Oct 2000 03:06:40 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14838.20032.679482.383041@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:06:40 -0500 (CDT) To: "Doug Poland" Cc: , , Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux In-Reply-To: References: <14838.17813.655452.705133@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Poland writes: > Well, that makes sense. Think of FreeBSD as a Linux distribution > and get them to support that. I may be beating a dead horse, but > how would that help (in the Sybase realm) with connectivity libraries > like Sybase-DB or Sybase-CT. These Sybase libraries are needed for > interfaces like PHP to speak to Sybase? I'm sure the other major > RDBMs have similar libraries. I honestly don't know. Can you link FreeBSD binaries against static Linux libraries and get sane results? Can a binary use shared libraries for both Linux (via emulation) and FreeBSD? I know you can run a Linux cross-compiler on FreeBSD with Linux emulation and get binaries that run under that emulation. If worst comes to worst, you could do that.