Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (House of Debuggin') Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi 2.0 binary compatibility question Message-ID: <199506080259.TAA05179@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199506072228.SAA00374@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "House of Debuggin'" at Jun 7, 95 06:28:20 pm
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> > - A statically linked FreeBSD binary will run just fine on the BSDI 2.0 > system. I used a statically-linked tcsh executable for the test: the > shell starts up fine and works great. /bin/csh and /bin/ls work too. > The BSDI file(1) and nm(1) commands doen't recognize the executables, > but they run anyway. > > - A statically linked program from BSDI 2.0 doesn't run at all on FreeBSD. > Even a dummy program like this: > sounds of chuckling heard from BSDI "(he he 'that'll fix'em)" wonder if they've thrown something in to deliberatly trip us up....? (unlikely mind you) julian
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