Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:37:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980530123708.Z20360@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net>; from Forrest Aldrich on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 01:50:41PM -0400 References: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net>
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On Fri, 29 May 1998 at 13:50:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I queried BSDI, Inc., today about whether their ports of Netscape's servers > would work well on FreeBSD (available on their "Business Builder CDROM"). > I was told that the binary format for BSD/OS is different from FreeBSD, and > as such they won't work. > > I'm wondering if this is true, or if there's a work around, etc. It's not true in the case of Netscape. BSD/OS has changed from a.out to ELF. We still run a.out, and will probably move to ELF by the end of the year. Current BSD/OS a.out binaries usually work fine on FreeBSD. If you want to run Netscape on FreeBSD, however, I'd suggest you use the FreeBSD version. It's available in the Ports Collection or on the 2.2.6 CD-ROM. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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