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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.gtn.com!knobel.gun.de!usenet From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSDI programs on FreeBSD Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:06:02 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4bovga$al@knobel.gun.de> References: <30CE4DEB.7686@myp.com> <4am62i$r2k@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <4am62i$r2k@agate.berkeley.edu>, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >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. I tried the Netscape proxy server (60 days trial) for BSDI on 2.1 and -current. It runs very well. -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<