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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:05:17 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Running Older Binaries under 8.0
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:52:47 -0500, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> 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, compat_6x should do that.


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Polytropon
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