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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 03:12:13 +0000
From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
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Hehe, got a good chuckle from BSDI's response.  FreeBSD can run BSDI
binaries, but BSDI can't run FreeBSD binaries.  Wonder why...Not! 
Couldn't be to force folks to buy their product in order to develop for
it?  ;)

I'm not belittling BSDI.  I quite like some of the things they've done,
and in fact started out with their old BSD/OS 1.1 stuff before I heard
of FreeBSD.  It was rock solid (almost as solid as FreeBSD? ;) and I had
an old Pentium 90 running a whole slew e-mail, FTP, & web accounts on it
for 1.5+ years and the P90 never cracked a sweat.  I'd see uptimes in
excess of 6 months -- would have been longer were it not for forced
reboots when I moved things around.

This does make me wonder one thing:  Is there any way to cross-compile
for BDS/OS on FreeBSD, or is this just plain impossible?  Has anyone
tried?

Aaron out.


Kurt Raymond <kurtray@bsdi.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael-
> 
> Thanks for contacting us.
> 
> BSDI and FreeBSD are not binary compatible.  If you re-compile your
> application under BSDI, that should do the trick.
> 
> For more hints, check out the bsdi-users mailing list archive at
> http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/bsdi
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Kurt Raymond
> BSDI
> 
> At 07:02 AM 2/12/98 -0500, Michael J. Demerling wrote:
> >
> >We are developing a serial communications tool
> >(www.sensorsoft.com/scomad.htm) for BSD. We compiled the program with GNU
> >under FreeBSD Ver 2.2.1.
> >
> >The product works fine under FreeBSD. However it produces the following
> >error message when run on a BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 server;
> >
> >Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so.
> >
> >Any ideas why? We thought BSD products were inter-compatible. Can we easily
> >make it compatible?
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >Michael Demerling
> >______________________________________________________________
> >
> >Qtek
> >912 Toll Rd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 3W9
> >Phone: (905) 276-5556  Fax: (905) 276-4202
> >Email: info@sensorsoft.com  Web: www.sensorsoft.com
> >
> >______________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> 
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