From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 23 06:18:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA16085 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 06:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA16080 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 06:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA12878; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:18:06 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma012846; Wed Oct 23 08:17:39 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA27817; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:17:39 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA07849; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:17:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610231317.IAA07849@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Michael Smith cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:28:46 +0930." <199610230558.PAA25119@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:17:15 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: >Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: >> >> Yes, I think that this would be very valuable. > >Ok. Unless there is resistance, I propose to base this on Slackware 3.1, >which will provide for both ELF and a.out executables. > >My biggest worry at the moment is that the shared-library differences >between the linux_lib kit and this will break something. > That's pretty easy to fix, the linux_lib has been due for a little upgrade for way too long. Last time I looked into it, my machine had way too much experimental crap to test it :( I think I'm in a position now to do it a little better justice. >> Jordan > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ >]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > -- -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com