Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:56:52 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Hans Zaunere <zaunere@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patches Question Message-ID: <3B5EC214.A0C77FC0@i-clue.de> References: <20010725123310.61497.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hans Zaunere wrote: > > I notice that a lot of applications need to be patched > to work on FreeBSD correctly. I am wondering, from a > strictly technical standpoint, what these patches are > for. How are they common? What is it about FreeBSD > that makes these patches neseccary? There are a lot of different Unix systems. Patches are needed to adapt applications written for another Unix-like platform to compile. This is true for all Unix Systems, including various linux distributions. What makes [Free]BSD pretty unique is the method to collect those patches in one place, and provide them to the user. That's what the ports directory is for. For other systems, the user has to collect those patches herself, or she has to rely on the distribution/vendor to do the patches for her. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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