From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 16:17:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10DBF37B65D for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 34087 invoked by uid 100); 16 Feb 2001 00:17:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14988.29083.206228.607413@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:17:31 -0600 To: "Jeremy Falcon" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling on 4.2 to use on 3.3 In-Reply-To: <50304134@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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 Jeremy Falcon types: > I'm hoping to install FreeBSD 4.2 at work. I want to start doing our web > development in a compiled language (like c) instead of PHP, Perl, etc. Our > web host doesn't allow us shell access, but only a cheesy web interface. I > believe they are using FreeBSD 3.3 for their web servers. I haven't tried > this before, so I want to know if I compile an executable on 4.2 will it run > on 3.3? I'm not concerned with file formats (i.e., ELF, a.out), just if > it'll run or not. I think it will, but I want to be sure. If not I'll dust > off my copy of 3.3. Not without some work on your part - and maybe not even then. Probably best just to build on 3.3. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message