From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 16:44:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA22125 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:44:36 -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 QAA22117 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:44:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA02740; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:44:09 -0700 To: Network Coordinator 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 17:17:30 EDT." Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:44:09 -0700 Message-ID: <2738.811986249@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm currently talking with them (Netscape) about this very subject. > > Apparently they need dlopen()/dlsym() functionality in Netscape 2.0 > > and this is not provided in BSDI 1.1, so there's a problem. > > > > I'm now busily trying to talk them into doing both BSDI 2.0 and > > FreeBSD 2.x native ports.. :-) > > If they don't add FreeBSD 2.x native support, how hard would it be too > add dlopen()/dlsym() support for BSDI 2.0 binaries? I am not a > programmer, so please excuse the ignorance. That's not the issue. The issue is that Netscape 2.0 obviously now needs dl*() functionality (these routines allow a shared executable to dynamically load more shared libs at runtime ala `DLL's) and such is not supported by BSDI 1.1 (and would be almost impossible to add). Since we're only compatible with BSDI 1.1 and not 2.0, we're screwed if they decide to port to 2.0 only. Therein lies our mutual problem. Jordan