From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 5:24:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2047C37C11B; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id FAA94621; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Roelof Osinga , "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System In-Reply-To: <20000727174955.A8139@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > There's a good chance it will run under FreeBSD OSF/1ulator :-) > > I don't know about that: linux alpha binaries don't normally seem to > run on OSF/1. Perhaps static binaries of Fortran code will, but I > doubt the Fortran compiler itself will. (The C binaries use the GNU C > library, even if compiled with the Compaq compiler.) And I don't > think the OSF/1 (Tru64) Fortran compiler is freely downloadable. Does > FreeBSD/alpha have a linuxulator? If so, that may be a better route. Nope, although the FreeBSD OSF/1ulator is advanced enough to run the OSF/1 (dynamic) netscape binary. I'm sure problem reports with other apps would be welcomed. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message