From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jan 8 14:10:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA03195 for emulation-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA03189 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA16166; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:09:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 14:08:11 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: A question on the SCO emulation. To: "Sean J. Schluntz" , Pedro Giffuni Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > I know that for a couple of different apps out there for SCO you need special > > SCO libraries on your FreeBSD system for the apps to run. Does any one know > > what those libraries are? And can I get them from the SCO Openserver CD or do > > I have to have a running SCO system to get them. > > > Precisely what I'm working on...yes you have to get them from the SCO CD > because we can't distribute them (can we ?). They must not be ELF > (find out with a file command). I'm downloading a binary of SCO's gcc to > see what libraries come there, SCO's Xfree86 doesn't support shared > libraries (yet ?) so there's not much more that can be done. I'm looking > how to use our gcc as a cross compiler, perhaps one day we can build our > own lesstif for SCO. > > Pedro. Yah, that was why I spend the whole $27 for the personal copy of SCO, there was the possibility that I would need to be able to run WordPerfict. I will be interested to see where it goes. And no, we can't distribute the libraries, they are licensed code of SCO and that would be a breach of their copyright. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 01/08/97 14:08:12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------