From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Oct 25 17:46: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B3C37B479; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13oakP-0006Vg-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:18:21 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:18:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Alex Kapranoff Cc: Mike Meyer , Doug Poland , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux In-Reply-To: <20001025090719.A1230@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alex Kapranoff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:06:40PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Doug Poland writes: > > > Well, that makes sense. Think of FreeBSD as a Linux distribution > > > and get them to support that. I may be beating a dead horse, but > > > how would that help (in the Sybase realm) with connectivity libraries > > > like Sybase-DB or Sybase-CT. These Sybase libraries are needed for > > > interfaces like PHP to speak to Sybase? I'm sure the other major > > > RDBMs have similar libraries. > > > > I honestly don't know. Can you link FreeBSD binaries against static > > Linux libraries and get sane results? Can a binary use shared > > libraries for both Linux (via emulation) and FreeBSD? > > No. No. That's a real showstopper for using Linux 'binary only' > database servers on a FreeBSD. Or use a type 4 JDBC driver. They work on all platforms. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message