From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 09:07:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71E416A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9E843FE0 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id hA8H7JXQ005535; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:07:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:07:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jacques Beigbeder Message-ID: <20031108170719.GB36548@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20031108133539.GA662@trefle.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031108133539.GA662@trefle.ens.fr> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [5.x] building. 4.x binaries ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 17:07:32 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 08), Jacques Beigbeder said: > Since FreeBSD 5.x include 4.x dynamic libraries, is there any way on > a 5.x box to build (with gcc) binaries which will run on a 4.x box? No, since you also need 4.x headers and 4.x static libraries. You can do this if you install 4.x in a chroot, or you can set up a vmware or bochs virtual machine running 4.x -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com