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From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD supports BSDI executables? [was: gnat 1.83 for FreeBSD
1.1.5]
Message-ID: <1994Nov7.135248.2250@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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References: <NILS.94Nov2155610@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de> <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net> <Cyt2MG.76s@luva.lb.bawue.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 13:52:46 +0000
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In article <Cyt2MG.76s@luva.lb.bawue.de>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote:
>In article <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net>,
>Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.infonet.net> wrote:
>[...]
>>Since both FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to support the BSDI QMAGIC format for
>>static executables, is there any hope that this is the way that you
>
>As I use both systems (FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 and BSDI-1.1) I can
>say that FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 executables linked -static not only
>seem to but actually do work with BSDI-1.1.
>
>The contrary, alas, isn't true :-(
You sure? I know that BSDI's mosaic binary used to work because I used it for
quite a while before someone built one for FreeBSD.
--
Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 222 874000 x5958
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff
Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK