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#! rnews 1071 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSDI programs on FreeBSD Date: 13 Dec 1995 09:23:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4am62i$r2k@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <30CE4DEB.7686@myp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <30CE4DEB.7686@myp.com>, Dean Roth <dean@myp.com> wrote: >Will programs compiled under BSDI 2.x run on a FreeBSD 2.x system >without recompiling? BSDI 1.x binaries will work fine on your FreeBSD system. In 2.0, BSDI changed some internal structures around and we've only just gotten support for these working again (now in FreeBSD-current and slated for release in FreeBSD 2.1.1). Fortunately, most vendors (like Netscape) would appear to be shipping BSDI 1.x binary versions of their products still. Jordan