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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!sawmill!sawmill!rjk From: rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com (Richard J Kuhns) Subject: Question about running BSDI binaries Message-ID: <RJK.95Jun2090032@sparcmill.grauel.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: root@sawmill.uucp (Admin (csh)) Nntp-Posting-Host: sparcmill.grauel.com Organization: Grauel Enterprises, Inc. Date: 02 Jun 1995 14:00:32 GMT Lines: 55 Under the impression that FreeBSD could run any statically-linked BSDI binary, I ordered a commercial package which had been ported to BSDI. Trying to install it on a machine running 2.0RELEASE, I got the following results: freebsd:/tmp$ file tgetinfo2 tgetinfo2: BSD/386 demand paged (first page unmapped) pure ex freebsd:/tmp$ ./tgetinfo2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) freebsd:/tmp$ gdb ./tgetinfo2 ./tgetinfo2.core GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.11 (i386-unknown-freebsd), Copyright 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc... (no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `tgetinfo2'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x1055 in start () (gdb) bt #0 0x1055 in start () Cannot access memory at address 0xefbfdc18. (gdb) quit freebsd:/tmp$ Does anyone have any suggestions or comments? I've got a FreeBSD subscription from Walnut Creek, so I should be receiving the 2.0.5 CDs soon; should I just wait and see what happens with them? FYI I've also installed the SCO version of the 20/20 spreadsheet program by Computer Associates. The installation itself was a little bit of a pain; the shell script they supplied to do the installation made a couple of SCO-specific assumptions. However, after performing the various steps manually, the spreadsheet itself appears to work perfectly. This is part of an attempt to convert most of our office to FreeBSD; I also have the SCO version of the local favorite word processor on order. If that works, and I can solve the problem with the BSDI software, we will have only 2 unix-like operating systems throughout the company -- FreeBSD and Solaris (on the sparcs). Thanks to everyone involved in the FreeBSD project; I've found it to be both a great deal of fun and very useful/reliable, which is a hard combination to beat (so I'm not even going to try anymore ;-). Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com -or- kuhns@acm.org PO Box 6249 100 Sawmill Road Lafayette, IN 47903 (317)477-6000 x319 -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 100 Sawmill Road Lafayette, IN 47903 (317)477-6000 x319