From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 4 17:03:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21904 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21898 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:03:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19333; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:02:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd019306; Sun Oct 4 17:02:49 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09356; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:02:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810050002.RAA09356@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 00:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810042043.NAA06447@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 4, 98 01:43:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Unfortunately, this may end up being a similar situation to the Linux ELF libs > > > thatb are shipped on the XiG CD, inthat there are all sorts of assumptions > > > made about the internals of libc and some of the funny stuff it exports. > > > > I've got to say ... "Then FreeBSD is wrong". > > Because FreeBSD doesn't export the same libc magic that Solaris does? > > You're on the wrong side of the argument. Multiply each side by the number of applications available that wrk with shared ELF libraries. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message