From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 21 10:48:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13303 for current-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13281; Tue, 21 May 1996 10:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uLvXK-0004JrC; Tue, 21 May 96 10:47 PDT Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Darren Davis cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... - Reply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 May 1996, Darren Davis wrote: > Don't forget that it is but a short hop from Solaris/x86 ELF binaries to > UnixWare 2.x ELF binaries. UnixWare is going to be the future direction > for SCO, so having the ability to run these binaries would be excellent! > Besides, I have many of them I want to run. > > Darren R. Davis > Senior Software Engineer > Novell, Inc. One problem with all this, before everyone gets too excited! :-) Unlike SCO or BSDI, where many programs are statically linked, nearly all SVR4 commercial software uses multiple shared libraries. This means that in the beginning, you will need to buy a copy of Solaris/x86 and/or UnixWare to get the shared libraries you need. This shouldn't be a problem for someone who works at Novell :-) and Solaris/x86 is available at substantial educational discount (ask your college bookstore!). Hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we will be able to map the SVR4 API directly to our own libc with stub shared libs, and eliminate the requirement for actual SVR4 libraries, but not now. At any rate, I'm glad to see there is big interest in getting SVR4 emulation added to FreeBSD, and it's fortunate that there is active maintainance of NetBSD's SVR4 code that we will be stealing, er, using.. :-) ---Jake