From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 20:56:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7309106564A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout030.mac.com (asmtpout030.mac.com [17.148.16.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFA78FC16 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:56:33 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp030.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L4D006L9U64L550@asmtp030.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:56:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1006210125 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5,1.2.40,4.0.166 definitions=2010-06-21_01:2010-02-06, 2010-06-21, 2010-06-20 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <201006212053.o5LKqlW9095437@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:56:28 -0700 Message-id: References: <201006212053.o5LKqlW9095437@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: Martin McCormick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Older Binaries under 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:56:34 -0000 Hi-- On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a large number of home-grown applications that > run under FreeBSD 6.3 and earlier. As we transition to > FreeBSD8.0, is there a good single package to add which will > provide the right libraries to allow these older binaries to run > without surprises? Yes, you want: /usr/ports/misc/compat6x It installs the libraries from FreeBSD-6.x under a compatibility location so that your older binaries should run without needing to be recompiled.... Regards, -- -Chuck