From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 16:58:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F76E16A4CF for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from philemon.caltech.edu (philemon.caltech.edu [131.215.158.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B73043D54 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:58:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@philemon.caltech.edu) Received: from philemon.caltech.edu (localhost.caltech.edu [127.0.0.1]) i8GH0kgX026975 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jd@philemon.caltech.edu) Received: (from jd@localhost) by philemon.caltech.edu (8.12.9p1/8.12.9/Submit) id i8GH0jFJ026974 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:00:45 -0700 From: eng@donut.ugcs.caltech.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040916170045.GB21127@philemon.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Running 3.x binaries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:58:57 -0000 I've just been given a whole bunch of binaries that had been compiled under FreeBSD 3.4 and asked to make them run under our modern 4.10 systems. I'm considering a couple of options + was hoping for some commentary on them: 1) setup a chroot environment with the old 3.x system (using the destdir directive on a 3.x buildworld) 2) Copy over the old libraries and install them in the usual places Are there any kernel options I need to ensure that the old libc will work? Where can I find these old sources? (I haven't looked yet, just thought I'd ask if someone knew offhand.) Thanks, Jon p.s. please reply to me directly as I do _not_ subscribe to the list.