From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Oct 15 3:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C26415320 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA81525 for emulation@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:41:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for emulation@FreeBSD.org (emulation@FreeBSD.org) To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:41:37 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <380704E1.39EB1934@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 with Linux-Base 6.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trenton Schulz wrote: > Since I was getting so tired of having the FreeBSD Netscape crashing on me > I thought I would try the Linux version under emulation. OF course, I > grabbed the Linux 2.2 kernel version of Netscape and found out I didn't > have all the right libraries, it worked by installing the linux-base-6.0 > from > http://www.freebsd.org/~marcel/ > all it really required was to remove /compat/linux first. If you're running -stable, stick to 5.2 unless you have no choice. glibc2.1 will probably never be fully supported on -stable. > but now when I try to run starOffice it appears to try and load but then it > exits saying: "Bad System Call" Yes... > upgrading to Linux-base-6.0 change things enough that I need to completely > re-install staroffice? or is it just because Linux-base-6.0 is still beta > and that call is waiting to be implemented? implementation of syscalls are not performed in ports :-) NOTE: Linux_base-6.0 has been made available to -current users. -stable users should use the ports collection. HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message