Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:34:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich@cac.washington.edu> To: Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mike@smith.net.au, billf@chc-chimes.com, ports@openbsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared libraries in packages Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.4.02.9808271129590.8000-100000@red8.cac.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <22005.904241420@dumbcat.snafu.org>
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This is embarrassing, but I don't mind admitting when I make a stupid mistake.
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Marco S Hyman wrote:
> Dave Dittrich writes:
> > Regardless, I think this means that you should not put *any* non-static
> > binaries on the OpenBSD site (that are created on FreeBSD systems) or at
> > least provide source for all ported products (as I can't recompile
> > libpcap until I find the source somewhere else besides the OpenBSD
> > site - I'll start sending email to the people who created the ports
> > to build my own.)
>
> In OpenBSD terms (which I believe are the same as FreeBSD, but am not
> sure) a `port' consists of the makefile, patches, and optional scripts
> to compile from source. Had you retrieved the port from one of the
> OpenBSD mirrors and attempted to build on an OpenBSD box you would not
> have had shared lib versioning problems. I take it that is not what
> you did.
Correct. I was moving too fast for my own good and stumbled down the wrong
path.
> Again in OpenBSD terms a `package' is a tarball containing installation
> instructions and binary images for a particular architecture running
> a particular version of the operating system. I make most (all?) of the
> OpenBSD packages and don't recall making a package for ntop. If you
> got a package from a non OpenBSD site for some other version of UNIX
> the only way you should expect it to work is using OpenBSD's emulation
> of that UNIX. FreeBSD emulation, for example, requires the FreeBSD
> shared libs. See compat_freebsd(8).
I'd still like to thank everyone for the explanations of FreeBSD/OpenBSD
compatibility, since its going to help me in the future with general porting
issues.
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