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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att-out!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!bsdealwi From: bsdealwi@math.uwaterloo.ca (Brian de Alwis) Subject: Re: Barriers to NetBSD/FreeBSD binary compatibility? Message-ID: <CuqLGE.68H@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: math.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo References: <32okpu$17u@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <32vok8$kab@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 15:24:14 GMT Lines: 20 In article <32vok8$kab@fw.novatel.ca>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca> wrote: >Jon Cargille (jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu) wrote: > >: Can someone outline the reasons behind the lack of binary >: compatibility between NetBSD and FreeBSD? > >My choice of OS is obviously NetBSD but it seems I lose because all of >the available ported packages are done for FreeBSD. In fact; I still >haven't managed to spend the right amount of time to make things like TeX >work properly under NetBSD. 'LaTeX' dies, 'dvips' dies, and 'xdvik' >doesn't work right. What about statically-linked FreeBSD binaries? Do they work? (Incidentally, I believe my TeX distribution was the same one I compiled with 386BSD 0.1+pk! And it still works flawlessly!) -- Brian de Alwis - University of Waterloo: bsdealwis@math.uwaterloo.ca "Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion" -- Richard Burton