From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 17 15:33:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26656 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.com.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26635 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@camtech.com.au) Received: from sebastion.sa.camtech.com.au (sebastion.sa.camtech.com.au [203.28.3.2]) by goliath.camtech.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA06831 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:00:37 +1030 (CST) Received: (from smtp@localhost) by sebastion.sa.camtech.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.7) id KAA04252 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:06:28 +1030 (CST) Received: from slingshot(192.168.1.2) by sebastion via smap (V2.0) id xma004250; Wed, 18 Mar 98 10:06:26 +1030 Received: from frenzy.ct (newton@frenzy.ct [192.168.4.65]) by slingshot.camtech.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA23864 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:59:33 +1030 From: Mark Newton Received: (from newton@localhost) by frenzy.ct (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26028 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:00:51 +1030 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:00:51 +1030 (CDT) Message-Id: <199803172330.KAA26028@frenzy.ct> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSDI executables Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm off-list at the moment, so please be gentle when replying :-) I've told a colleague that the -Q option to ld still works under 2.2.5, and will generate an executable which stands a better-than-even chance of running under BSD/OS 2.0 from BSDI. Have I mislead my colleague? I don't have a BSDI system nearby to check, so all I have is the manpage, which could be out of date (especially with the way we and BSDI have tended to follow a "MAGIC-of- the-month" style development rationale :-) As a supplementary question, does said executable have to be statically linked? If any part of BSDI compatibility was going to fall over I'd guess it'd be that... Any other pitfalls with building under FreeBSD and running under BSDI? [ we have a commercial application here which will run on lots of platforms; we're working out a least-effort path for building it ] - mark --- Mark Newton Email: newton@communica.com.au Systems Engineer and Senior Trainer Phone: +61-8-8303-3300 Communica Systems, a member of the Fax: +61-8-8303-4403 CAMTECH group of companies WWW: http://www.communica.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message