From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 4 17:09:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22613 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22587 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28697; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:09:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd028645; Sun Oct 4 17:08:51 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09541; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:08:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810050008.RAA09541@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 00:08:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, cracauer@cons.org, chuckr@mat.net, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810042054.NAA06534@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 4, 98 01:54:34 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 > 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