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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2940 comp.os.linux.misc:20672 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Message-ID: <1994Jul31.014822.183@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 01:48:22 GMT References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <michaelv.775258838@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Jul28.025818.6937@escape.widomaker.com> <9407301453.48@rmkhome.com> Lines: 23 In article <9407301453.48@rmkhome.com>, rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) says: +--------------- | compile an application or utility, and take the binary to a SCO UNIX | site that is running the base OS (no compiler), and just load and go... | | Neither BSD or Linux can do that now. +------------->8 You can under Linux; but the components aren't neatly packaged, aren't pretty, and aren't easy to set up. Nevertheless, there's an iBCS2 libc (source) and COFF assembler and linker in the ALPHA iBCS2 directory on tsx-11; if you're feeling gutsy and have lots of time to kill, you can put together an iBCS2 cross-development system. (Actually, I think you still need to get a COFF crt0.o from somewhere.) Whether they'll ever turn into a real cross-development system depends on whether anyone cares enough to do it or not. Most of the iBCS2 effort is aimed at going the other way :-) ++Brandon -- (__^_o Bookworm aka Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [44.70.4.88] bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Linux development: iBCS2, JNOS, MH