From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 25 04:28:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA21785 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 04:28:07 -0800 Received: from tinny.eis.net.au (root@zzeelu.slip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.11.60]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA21779 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 04:28:01 -0800 Received: (from ernie@localhost) by tinny.eis.net.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA04027 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 18:21:57 +1000 From: Ernie Elu Message-Id: <199502250821.SAA04027@tinny.eis.net.au> Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 18:21:56 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 791 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Is amusing that we can share so much out of the OS and the apps but >oops when it comes to share libs all bets are off. > > Amancio I am a bit new to all this. What uinx like systems have shared library compatibility between them? I would have though static linked binaries would have been enough. Can someone fill me in on some sucessful examples of this? I am running Netscape that runs on several BSD system so I am told. How does it do that? I presume staic linking is all that they did. - Ernie. _______________________________________________________________________________ Elu Information Systems - ernie@tinny.eis.net.au Brisbane - Australia "I ping, therefore I am." _______________________________________________________________________________