Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 07:15:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <19980531071501.Q20360@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805301734.NAA15389@chmls05.mediaone.net>; from Forrest Aldrich on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 01:35:27PM -0400 References: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net> <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net> <19980530123708.Z20360@freebie.lemis.com> <199805301734.NAA15389@chmls05.mediaone.net>
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On Sat, 30 May 1998 at 13:35:27 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > At 12:37 PM 5/30/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Fri, 29 May 1998 at 13:50:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >>> I queried BSDI, Inc., today about whether their ports of Netscape's servers >>> would work well on FreeBSD (available on their "Business Builder CDROM"). >>> I was told that the binary format for BSD/OS is different from FreeBSD, and >>> as such they won't work. >>> >>> I'm wondering if this is true, or if there's a work around, etc. >> >> It's not true in the case of Netscape. BSD/OS has changed from a.out >> to ELF. We still run a.out, and will probably move to ELF by the end >> of the year. Current BSD/OS a.out binaries usually work fine on >> FreeBSD. >> >> If you want to run Netscape on FreeBSD, however, I'd suggest you use >> the FreeBSD version. It's available in the Ports Collection or on the >> 2.2.6 CD-ROM. > > FYI, we are referring to the ports by BSDI of the Netscape servers, like > Directory Server (et al), which is available on BSDI's "Business Builder > CD". Whether or not those will run under FreeBSD. > > I understand FreeBSD-3.0 will be out sometime this year... is it possible > that 3.0 will be the move to ELF format? Yes, it's possible. -CURRENT now supports ELF, and some people are already running all-ELF systems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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