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>From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
>The problem is that unless you want to build your application under SCO
>unix (or cross-compile it under FreeBSD), you can't build a native
>FreeBSD program.  It's also near impossible to debug SCO binaries on
>FreeBSD.

If Sybase ported just their client libraries to FreeBSD the way they did
to Linux, that would address this problem.

<haven't tried cross development of linux binaries, so I havn;t a clue if thats
a usable approach>.