Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:59:05 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <4.1.19981218205611.06c17f10@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199812190345.TAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:28:33 MST." <4.1.19981218191723.064c4680@mail.lariat.org>
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At 07:45 PM 12/18/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under >> FreeBSD unless it was branded. > >You can't be using much then. The only things that need to be branded >are static binaries, I'm not using many, because so far they've been a royal pain in the derriere. One of the most frustrating was the "Free Pascal" Turbo Pascal clone for Linux. It and every object file it generated had to be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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