From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sun Apr 14 14:10: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D50437B404 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3EL9xQ43161 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BE73811; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug Rabson Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 compatibility ... In-Reply-To: <20020413154917.X26844-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:09:59 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020414211000.02BE73811@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson wrote: > ... is coming along nicely: > > # uname -a > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #219: Sat Apr 13 15:34:51 BST > 2002 > dfr@herring.nlsystems.com:/b/dfr/FreeBSD/smpng/sys/ia64/compile/SMALL > ia64 > # file ./ls > ./ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), > statically linked, stripped > # ./ls -l > total 1043 > -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 797 Oct 6 2001 .cshrc Doug, you are a bad bad man! :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon Apr 15 0:41: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BE337B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16x16f-000Kf5-0a for ia64@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:57 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g3F7euaf007853 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:56 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Subject: Re: i386 compatibility ... In-Reply-To: <20020413114828.A25574@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020415083909.O26844-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:51:22PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > ... is coming along nicely: > ... > > I'll be trying to get shared libraries going next. > > Before you get too far ahead we should discuss shared libraries, as > x86-64 will need to do this also. Will we build i386 shared libs? It > seems we would want to. Will we just have the user install a compat lib? > Considering the speed at which -current moves.... Initially, I'm just going to copy a set from an i386 current box. Long term, I'm not sure. Given that the main aim for this is for binary compatiblity with FreeBSD/i386, perhaps a package containing a suitable set of libraries from -stable would be sufficient? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message