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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rahul.net!a2i!raw!iverson From: iverson@lionheart.com (Tim Iverson) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP] - Should BCS2 work? References: <D2q337.1Er@lionheart.com> <3fpfg2$r6d@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Lionheart Software Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 23:52:15 GMT Message-ID: <D2s4z3.AEz@lionheart.com> Lines: 30 In article <3fpfg2$r6d@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: >In article <D2q337.1Er@lionheart.com>, >Tim Iverson <iverson@lionheart.com> wrote: >>I just installed FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP. I ran the ibcs2 program, and >>it seemed to indicate that BCS support was loaded. All of my SCO programs, >>even simple things like 'cat', fail with 'IO Trap'. Note that these are >>all SCO version 3.2.2 programs. > >1) Was your kernel compiled with `COMPAT_IBCS2'? No. I thought that was what 'ibcs2' loading dynamically. Besides, the COMPAT_IBCS2 option you're referring to is not mentioned anywhere - not even in the LINT configuration. How could I know to use it? >2) Did your programs require shared libraries? Almost all SCO 3.2.2 programs require shared libraries. Certainly, all the ones that I want use do. Does BCS2 support mean only static binaries, or is there something else I must to do to make SCO shared libraries work? If you could point me at the documentation for all this, I would greatly appreciate it. It's beginning to look like it would be easier to simply recompile everything for FreeBSD instead of relying on IBCS2 emulation. I was planning on doing this eventually, but there's a great deal of code to unpack, configure for BSD, compile, and then test - weeks of work ;-(. - Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com