From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 00:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA24870 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA24850 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA23518; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:16:23 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA10196; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:46:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970826164615.52775@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:46:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: chaos@tgci.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Excite using BSDI or Linux emulation References: <19970826122932.64429@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Shawn Ramsey on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 10:19:40PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 01:29:17PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >>>> One of my users d/l'ed the BSDI version of Excite. Do I need to do >>>> anything special to use the BSDI version of Excite on fbsd 2.2.2-R? >>>> Should I use Linux emulation instead? Any pros or cons for bsdi vs >>>> linux? >>>> >>>> I know how to enable Linux emulation, but a (very) quick look >>>> at the docs didn't turn up anything on bsdi emulation. Do I need to >>>> build a new kernel for bsdi? >>> >>> Nothing special needs to be done for BSDI emulation, and all the BSD's are >>> somewhat compatible with each other. I know BSDI can run at least some >>> FreeBSD binaries, and FreeBSD can run NetBSD binaries, and probably >>> OpenBSD as well. >> >> Unfortunately, this is no longer completely true. Version 3.0 of >> BSD/OS apparently uses ELF binaries, which FreeBSD doesn't understand >> (yet). On the other hand, there is almost perfect compatibility with >> BSD/OS a.out binaries (the old standard, and the one that most >> software is probably still produced in). > > I didnt know that. But I really doubt the excite search engine was > compiled for 3.0. I believe it is mostly in perl anyhow. BTW, do BSDI 3.0 > binaries work on BSDI 2.1? (offtopic I know, just curious) Unfortunately, I've moved house since I got the 3.0 CD, and I haven't seen it since, so I can't check, but I'm pretty sure that old BSD/OS a.out objects will run fine under BSD/OS 3.0. Note that FreeBSD objects will *not* run under BSD/OS. Greg