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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!uni-mannheim!root From: root@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Charlie Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: FreeBSD with NetBSD-shared-libraries !?! Date: 22 Nov 1993 17:50:19 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2cqu4r$kkb@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <jkizi01.753985072@appserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de In article <jkizi01.753985072@appserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>, Hans-Joachim Wittmann <jkizi01@appserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: >What I have don up to now: grabbed the sources and plugged >it into my FreeBSD-1.0 system. After some fiddling around, >almost everything seems to work. Just some oddities left... The problem with doing things like this is that both systems are changing, by the time you copy part of one system to the other it will have been outdated (at least in the case where it is a new function that is still developing). The best you can do is wait until the main workers on FreeBSD have finished their port and use that or wait until it stops changing on the NetBSD side. The problems you mentioned about text-relocation were problems that I haven't seen in the last few weeks. (The _ctype_ has changed anyways). Patches for building XFree86-2.0 were posted to c.o.3.apps and c.w.x.i386unix two days ago, they work when the shared-libs are implemented the way it has been done for NetBSD. In a few days gcc is about to change (and gas and ld have been changed for it), so it won't be much use just getting some newer sources. Just wait a bit instead, i'm sure the work will have been done soon. Cheers -- Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal).