From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 9 20:33:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA19454 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA19449 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00625; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:00:41 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710100330.NAA00625@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Brian N. Handy" cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 19:49:26 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:00:41 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under > >FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was > >still running startup shell scripts at the time. > > Aye, yes. It's necessary to hunt though the various scripts and replace > "Linux" with "Linux"|"FreeBSD". (Or variations on this theme.) I did a port for IDL 4; any interest in one for the IDL5 demo? This is a big, badass scientific product that FreeBSD runs perfectly, if you're ever looking for more brag material. (Anyone tried the Linux PV-Wave on FreeBSD?) There are only two or three scripts that need changing (the rest are just links)... mike