Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 00:08:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, cracauer@cons.org, chuckr@mat.net, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? Message-ID: <199810050008.RAA09541@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810042054.NAA06534@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 4, 98 01:54:34 pm
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> The Solaris ABI defines the interface between executing programs and the > kernel. > > The various programming APIs define the source-level interface. > > There are no standards for the interface between shared objects which > are relevant to the discussion. Sure there are. There's the Solaris ABI. > You will notice, if you had been paying attention to the list of > missing library symbols recently posted, that the interface between the > Solaris Motif library and the Solaris C library involves a not > insubstantial number of very weird symbols. It might be feasible to > implement a compatibility library, but this would, naturally, suck. How? In that it would allow shared Solaris binaries to operate on FreeBSD? You must have a different definition of "suck"... 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
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