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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP] - Should BCS2 work? Date: 22 Jan 1995 00:31:16 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3fs90k$in2@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <D2q337.1Er@lionheart.com> <3fpfg2$r6d@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu> <D2s4z3.AEz@lionheart.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <D2s4z3.AEz@lionheart.com>, Tim Iverson <iverson@lionheart.com> wrote: >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? The iBCS2 code comes in two parts. One part can be loaded dynamically, and is controlled by the kernel option `IBCS2' and the ibcs2 LKMs. The other part cannot; it is controlled by `COMPAT_IBCS2'. >>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 have a complete (legal) SCO installation, and chroot() to it, or if you copy the necessary libraries, programs, and configuration files into your BSD area, then shared programs will work. We cannot at this time supply SCO-compatible shared libraries (although some people are supposedly working on this). >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 ;-(. The iBCS2 emulation should be considered `beta'. Write to <sos@freebsd.org> for more information. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant