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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:55:59 GMT
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD
Message-ID:  <199502281455.OAA23698@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Paul Richards's message of Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:22:18 %2B0000 (GMT)

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> > This suggest that we have a /usr/shlib/NetBSD
> > /usr/shlib/iBSC2-SCO
> > /usr/shlib/Linux
> > /usr/shlib/FreeBSD-1 for the compat stuff.

> I like this plan.

So do I.  My only question is whether compatibility with some systems
might involve more than shared libraries, so that it would be better
to have /compat/NetBSD/usr/lib etc.  That would also allow you to
use a chroot()ed environment for more complete emulation.

-- Richard



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