From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 14:51:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A6616A4CE; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail1.cableone.net [24.116.0.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719B743D9D; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhouchin@texoma.net) Received: from texoma.net (unverified [24.116.250.217]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 1354163 for multiple; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:49:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3FD8F41C.8060402@texoma.net> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:47:56 -0600 From: Jimmie Houchin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031203 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: Owen Becker cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:51:55 -0000 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