From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 18 20:07:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17539 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17534 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:07:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA28451; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:07:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981218205611.06c17f10@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:59:05 -0700 To: Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812190345.TAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:45 PM 12/18/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under >> FreeBSD unless it was branded. > >You can't be using much then. The only things that need to be branded >are static binaries, I'm not using many, because so far they've been a royal pain in the derriere. One of the most frustrating was the "Free Pascal" Turbo Pascal clone for Linux. It and every object file it generated had to be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message