Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 13:54:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), chuckr@mat.net, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? Message-ID: <199810042054.NAA06534@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:07:11 -0000." <199810042007.NAA09600@usr08.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > Someone needs to flush $15 on the "free" Solaris and/or UnixWare CDROM, > > > which has an ELF Motif library on it. > > > > And this library won't use any system or libc calls that might be > > incompatible in FreeBSD? > > It's not supposed to. > > If it does, I think you could attribute the breakage to FreeBSD, > not Solaris. After all, which OS's have been certified to which > standards? The Solaris ABI defines the interface between executing programs and the kernel. The various programming APIs define the source-level interface. There are no standards for the interface between shared objects which are relevant to the discussion. You will notice, if you had been paying attention to the list of missing library symbols recently posted, that the interface between the Solaris Motif library and the Solaris C library involves a not insubstantial number of very weird symbols. It might be feasible to implement a compatibility library, but this would, naturally, suck. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199810042054.NAA06534>