Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:56:28 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Older Binaries under 8.0 Message-ID: <E6F0BD7A-6C6E-4EA9-A3F0-3BE6B9D261F3@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <201006212053.o5LKqlW9095437@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201006212053.o5LKqlW9095437@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Hi-- On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a large number of home-grown applications that > run under FreeBSD 6.3 and earlier. As we transition to > FreeBSD8.0, is there a good single package to add which will > provide the right libraries to allow these older binaries to run > without surprises? Yes, you want: /usr/ports/misc/compat6x It installs the libraries from FreeBSD-6.x under a compatibility location so that your older binaries should run without needing to be recompiled.... Regards, -- -Chuck
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