Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 26 Feb 1995 01:27:50 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD
Message-ID:  <199502251427.BAA23726@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>*static* binary compatible, yes.  If you want something to run on all
>the *BSDs, link it static.  Otherwise all bets are off.

All bets are off anyway.  The runtime combination of a foreign application
and foreign shared libries is not very different from the same foreign
application linked statically.  Foreign syscalls, foreign ioctls, foreign
database, ... won't work in either case.

Bruce



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199502251427.BAA23726>