Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:23:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jsoft@alphalink.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD / BSDOS Enquire Message-ID: <19981018162332.F4015@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <362A5C94.7DBB@alphalink.com.au>; from Juan Jose Suarez on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:24:36PM -0700 References: <362A5C94.7DBB@alphalink.com.au>
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[FreeBSD-doc is still wrong, following up to FreeBSD-questionsn] On Sunday, 18 October 1998 at 14:24:36 -0700, Juan Jose Suarez wrote: > Hello, > Could it be possible to tell me in a fex lines if FreeBSD will be > compatible with the OS which its configuration is shown below. > > I imagine is a kind of BSD, and I would like to purchase a compatible > version. But I am not sure of the one I should look for.. > > (Follows the configuration of the OS that I need to have compatibility) Where did you get this from? I don't recognize the format. Anyway, I can guess... > Platform: > osname=bsdos, osvers=3.0, archname=i386-bsdos OK, this looks like BSD/OS 3.0. As I said before, FreeBSD is compatible. > uname='bsdos server2.hypermart.net 3.0 bsdi bsdos 3.0 kernel #0: tue mar 10 22:52:33 est 1998 root@server2.hypermart.net:usrsrcsyscompilemaxusers256 i386 ' OK. This doesn't tell us much more, except that the server appears to be somewhere in Northern California. > hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define > bincompat3=y useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef > Compiler: > cc='shlicc2', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.1 > cppflags='' > ccflags ='' > stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false > voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define > intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define > Linker and Libraries: > ld='shlicc2', ldflags =' -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib' > libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/shlib /shlib /usr/lib /usr/X11/lib > libs=-lrpc -lcurses -ltermcap -lXpm -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE > -lXext -lX11 -ldl -lm -lc > libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=o > useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=o, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' > cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-r -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib' This looks like some sort of config stuff for a specific package. None of it looks difficult to handle: it's the standard X library. If you tell us what package it is, we might be able to tell you more. If you can get the binary, there's a good chance that it will run on FreeBSD unchanged. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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