On 12/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alex.
Hello,
I've got a fresh new 4.0/AMD64 system installed, and after sitting down
Congratulations ;)
to add Linux binary compatibility, I see that it apparently doesn't
exist on this platform. After some archive digging, it doesn't appear
that the idea has been thoroughly discussed, especially since adding
32-bit Linux binary support would be difficult at best
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109036873227847&w=2).
Unfortunately Linux compatbility is for i386 only - from options(4):
option COMPAT_LINUX
On those architectures that support it, this enables binary compatibility
with Linux ELF and a.out applications built for the same architecture.
This option is supported on the i386 architecture. See compat_linux(8).
Although I would love to see compatibilty for Linux 64Bit (amd64 - not ia64 ;)
on OpenBSD, I can live without it.
If there applications that ships _only_ with Linux binaries - and without
source code to compile for myself - I consider this apps as "BLOB"s
and BLOBs are baaaad! ^^
Andreas.
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