From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 16:39:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA21822 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:39:19 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA21815 ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:39:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA02698; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:39:11 -0700 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Olof Johansson , "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 1995 14:09:04 PDT." <199509242109.OAA06989@aslan.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:39:10 -0700 Message-ID: <2696.811985950@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What about BSDI 2.0 binary compatibility? Anyone working on this? > Jordan, you have a BSDI 2.0 box around don't you? I do, but it's a cast-iron &*^%$#@!! BSDI apparently changed crt0.o fairly substantially but not the magic number. Now explain to me how we're supposed to tell the difference and be selectively compatible? :-( It's gonna be some fun, and that's not even counting the shared lib compatibility problem now that they've gone shared. Jordan