Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:06:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812192206.OAA00522@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:59:05 MST." <4.1.19981218205611.06c17f10@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 07:45 PM 12/18/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under > >> FreeBSD unless it was branded. > > > >You can't be using much then. The only things that need to be branded > >are static binaries, > > I'm not using many, because so far they've been a royal pain in the > derriere. One of the most frustrating was the "Free Pascal" Turbo > Pascal clone for Linux. I think you set yourself up for this one. 8) > It and every object file it generated had to > be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under > 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as > to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or > anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps. ktrace is your friend, perhaps. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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