Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:47:56 -0600 From: Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status Message-ID: <3FD8F41C.8060402@texoma.net> In-Reply-To: <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote: > >>Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on >>FreeBSD/amd64? > > > Peter Wemm and I have agreed that the priority for running binaries is: > 1. FreeBSD/i386 ELF > 2. 32-bit i386 Linux ELF > 3. 64-bit amd64 Linux ELF > > of course someone may have other priorities and work on things in a > different order. How far off is number 1? I presume this means I am not able to compile and run 32bit apps currently? One of the apps I am interested may not be 64bit clean. In Gentoo I had to enter the 32bit dev environment to compile it. I haven't been able to do that successfully on Gentoo yet. That is one of the reasons I went exploring FreeBSD. Not the only one tho'. :) Actually if FreeBSD AMD64 was tier 1 when I got my machine I may have never tried the Gentoo port. >>More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going? > > Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal > knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism. I don't > understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new > architectures. Gentoo AMD64 has mozilla running. > I have some patches for Mozilla 1.4 with GCC 3.2. I started working on > porting them, but December has become my work month from hell. It is > important to me to get these into the Mozilla CVS tree for 1.6/0.8. > Peter mentioned there seems to be some patches in the Mozilla bugzilla > that might cover GCC 3.3. If someone is bored and wanted to spend some > time on it... all I ask is that if someone does port them, to post the > patches and give me a chance to Sheppard them into the Mozilla CVS tree so > things are as AMD would like them to be (naming, etc...). Gentoo AMD64 is using gcc 3.3.2. I don't know if any of the Gentoo AMD64 work towards mozilla is of any benefit to FreeBSD or not. I am not a C/C++ programmer. :) Jimmie Houchin
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