From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 09:39:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21490 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sage1.sagecorp.com ([204.250.198.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21485 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:39:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djw@sage1.sagecorp.com) Received: from localhost (djw@localhost) by sage1.sagecorp.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23166; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:45:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:45:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Darren Whittaker To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, john.young@openmarket.com Subject: Re: problem in 3.0 In-Reply-To: <199810161613.JAA00588@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > We compile on: > > BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 > > > > We link shared. > > Ok, sounds like you're being bitten by incompatibilities between our C > library and theirs. The best way to work around this will be to link > static - your program will start and run faster, and as a bonus you'll > have a much better chance of running on both BSD/OS and FreeBSD systems. > > We do our best to maintain binary compatibility with BSD/OS at the > kernel level, but at the library level it's just a bit too hard. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > We just linked our code using static but they still won't work on the 3.0 system. We are concerned that our freeBSD customers are going to have problems with our working software when they upgrade from 2.x to 3.x. -Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message