From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 7 12:58:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20370 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 12:58:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20169 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 12:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA) Received: from Shevchenko.Kiev.UA (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15080; Thu, 7 May 1998 22:55:05 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <35521182.2B5FFF48@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 22:54:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Organization: GlavAPU X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com CC: steve.shoecraft@microchip.com, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > ? ? Steve Shoecraft wrote: > ? ? Let me ask the question I have in another way: > ? ? > ? ? o Is it possible to convert the SCO object files (ELF?) to > ? what > ? ? FreeBSD uses natively (COFF?)? > ? ? > ? ? o If I can't convert the object files, can I link the object > ? files > ? ? together to make a binary? > ? > I already had this idea. I can tell you a saga about it :-) > I wrote COFF (Oracle 7.1.6 for SCO was using > COFF format) to BSD a.out converter and started implementation of > SCO-compatible libraries. I took FreeBSD 2.0.5 libraries as base > (because they are smaller and simpler than later) and started > comparing man pages from SCO and FreeBSD. I have compared all the > man pages and have converted about 1/3 of differences (the converted > part included base packages like stdio and locale), when my > experiments with SCSI I did at the same time led to a big disk crash. > The COFF-?BSD converter was lost during it but the library sources > have survived. It took lots of time to restore from this crash > and many things have occurred since that but this work is still > in the state when it was before crash. If somebody wants to > continue it, I'm ready to provide the part I did and SCO man pages, > grouped by compatibility. You will probably also need SCO > to generate the test examples. I don't know whether SCO is still > distributing their Open Desktop for nominal charge for personal > use. That is the sad end of this saga :-( > I'm interesting in this, can you post/open www/ftpfor you library and point to some docs about a.out/coff format ? (P.S. Are you understand russian ? If yes, are you understand koi8 ?) > -Serge Babkin > working as Oracle DBA now > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- @= //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message