From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 23:59:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E5616A4CF for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:59:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net (razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BCA43FFB for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfi0e.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.200.14] helo=mindspring.com) by razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AI1WG-0001WY-00; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:59:01 -0800 Message-ID: <3FAB50D6.39BDF991@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:59:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rodperson@comcast.net References: <20031106140957.B1B1E93@toad.stack.nl> <200311062054.49682.rodperson@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4de023130d0ef96a870cd5ef43258e206350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kylix in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:59:08 -0000 Rod Person wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:09 am, It was written: > > If you futs with getting Kylix to run under FreeBSD, don't forget the > > special glibc requirements that some versions of Kylix have. Maybe you > > should probably simply replace the entire /compat userland with the > > userland of a distro that Kylix supprorts _with_ kylix extra patches > > installed? > > Have you tried this? Since Kylix came out I have tried to get it to run on > FreeBSD and various Linux distros. A few days ago I got kylix to run on SuSE > 8.2 (from the kylix newsgroups this seems to be the best distro for it). > NetBSDs Linux emulation is based on SuSE, isn't it? But, I found no postings > related to Kylix on NetBSD. My next wondering is would NetBSD Linux emu run > under FreeBSD and would this run kylix? Since all new developement in Kylix is apparently officially stalled, now would be a good time to do the porting work, since it's no longer a moving target... http://www.linuxworld.com.au/nindex.php?id=122384005&eid=-50 -- Terry