Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:41:37 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 with Linux-Base 6.0 Message-ID: <380704E1.39EB1934@scc.nl> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9910142149090.3628-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
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Trenton Schulz wrote: > Since I was getting so tired of having the FreeBSD Netscape crashing on me > I thought I would try the Linux version under emulation. OF course, I > grabbed the Linux 2.2 kernel version of Netscape and found out I didn't > have all the right libraries, it worked by installing the linux-base-6.0 > from > http://www.freebsd.org/~marcel/ > all it really required was to remove /compat/linux first. If you're running -stable, stick to 5.2 unless you have no choice. glibc2.1 will probably never be fully supported on -stable. > but now when I try to run starOffice it appears to try and load but then it > exits saying: "Bad System Call" Yes... > upgrading to Linux-base-6.0 change things enough that I need to completely > re-install staroffice? or is it just because Linux-base-6.0 is still beta > and that call is waiting to be implemented? implementation of syscalls are not performed in ports :-) NOTE: Linux_base-6.0 has been made available to -current users. -stable users should use the ports collection. HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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