From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 14:09:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24722 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:09:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles151.castles.com [208.214.165.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24716 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00522; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812192206.OAA00522@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:59:05 MST." <4.1.19981218205611.06c17f10@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:06:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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. I think you set yourself up for this one. 8) > 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. ktrace is your friend, perhaps. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message