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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:18:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD v Linux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010251717210.24629-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001025090719.A1230@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>

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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



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