From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 20:07:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03749 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03695 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA21487; Sat, 30 May 1998 12:37:08 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980530123708.Z20360@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:37:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD References: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net>; from Forrest Aldrich on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 01:50:41PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 May 1998 at 13:50:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I queried BSDI, Inc., today about whether their ports of Netscape's servers > would work well on FreeBSD (available on their "Business Builder CDROM"). > I was told that the binary format for BSD/OS is different from FreeBSD, and > as such they won't work. > > I'm wondering if this is true, or if there's a work around, etc. It's not true in the case of Netscape. BSD/OS has changed from a.out to ELF. We still run a.out, and will probably move to ELF by the end of the year. Current BSD/OS a.out binaries usually work fine on FreeBSD. If you want to run Netscape on FreeBSD, however, I'd suggest you use the FreeBSD version. It's available in the Ports Collection or on the 2.2.6 CD-ROM. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message