Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: basically if you rely only on the standard posix interfaces and don't do anything exotic then you will probably be safe. the really safe way of course it to make a 6.0 chroot on your machine and compile your app there. For raw UNIX applications,

My SoC2008 project: Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD

2008-05-10 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hello, I've been actively working on FreeBSD as a ports and doc committer since December 2006 and has participated 2 times in the Summer of Code program, but my current project is from a different area thus I would like to summarize my goals and introduce myself for those who don't know me

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50:48 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: basically if you rely only on the standard posix interfaces and don't do anything exotic then you will probably be safe. For raw UNIX applications, this rule of thumb

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Mike Meyer wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50:48 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: basically if you rely only on the standard posix interfaces and don't do anything exotic then you will probably be safe. For raw

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-10 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008, Mike Meyer wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50:48 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: basically if you rely only on the standard posix interfaces and don't do anything