From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 22:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (bitmcnit.bryansk.ru [195.239.213.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740E537B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id JAA30870; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:01:14 +0400 Received: (from alex@localhost) by kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9P57J402270; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:07:19 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:07:19 +0400 From: Alex Kapranoff To: Mike Meyer Cc: Doug Poland , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux Message-ID: <20001025090719.A1230@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> References: <14838.17813.655452.705133@guru.mired.org> <14838.20032.679482.383041@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14838.20032.679482.383041@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:06:40PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:06:40PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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? No. No. That's a real showstopper for using Linux 'binary only' database servers on a 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. I've used such setup to run a linux oracle, and a dbiproxy under a linux perl. As far as dbiproxy protocol doesn't require binary libs we could connect to the oracle from a FreeBSD box to do some selects :) -- Alex Kapranoff, Voice: +7(0832)791845 67 days before the brand new millenium... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message