From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 5:57:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51D5337B650 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:57:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 92955 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2000 12:57:08 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 27 Jul 2000 12:57:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 8405 invoked by uid 211); 27 Jul 2000 12:57:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:27:05 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Roelof Osinga , "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Message-ID: <20000727182705.A8368@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000727174955.A8139@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:24:52AM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway said on Jul 27, 2000 at 05:24:52: > 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. FWIW, running OSF/1 binaries (including the dynamic netscape binary) on linux/alpha doesn't seem to involve any special kernel options or modules -- one only needs to copy /sbin/loader and a few essential shared libraries from an OSF/1 machine. (I think these are what FreeBSD also uses, distributed as part of a netscape RPM from Compaq.) I take that to mean the system calls are the same? Or at least, the linux ones are a superset of the OSF/1 ones? So maybe running a linux binary on OSF/1, or on FreeBSD's OSF/1ulator, may only require having the linux libraries installed in some appropriate place. I don't know, haven't tried it... Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message