From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 17:59:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22969 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:59:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22960 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA01997 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:59:38 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA13901; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:25:35 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602080155.MAA13901@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: More on x86 Emulated Willows To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:25:35 +1030 (CST) Cc: willows@throck.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Feb 7, 96 10:50:34 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel stands accused of saying: > > I found out this morning that, a static 'xwin' binary is MUCH more > succesful then the dynamic one. The static one runs charmap, terminal, > clock, and even gets much farther on WinWord.. Anyone have any idea what > could be causing this? Eww. Sounds like a linking problem, though Rob was talking about a fairly magic library-loading scheme that they use so there may be something odd we haven't found yet. > Current problems are: > > 1- Calc, Excel, and others FPE in fp87.c-- This bug is FreeBSD specific(?) Yup. I suspect the judicious application of fpsetmask() and friends will help with this one. With native x87 usage, this shouldn't be so bad. > 2- WinWord complains about SHARE.EXE not being loaded... Any ideas? Rob suggested that this may have been because your TEMP environment variable wasn't set. Apparently there are a few other problems there too. > Sujal -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[