On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:49:01AM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > Hello: > > I usuallly play chess on FICS. They use a programme > called "Timeseal", which is pre-compiled for a lot > of different platforms (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc). > > This program adjust clocks when network delay appears > or something like that, I'm not an expert on the subject. > > The problem is that this program use to work on FreeBSD-4.X > but it's not working any longer with FreeBSD-5.0 > > When I exec: timeseal.FreeBSD www.freechess.org 5000 this > error appears: > > bash: ./timeseal.FreeBSD: cannot execute binary file > > "ldd" shows this: > > ldd: timeseal.FreeBSD: not a dynamic executable > > Why is binary compatibility broken with this executable ?
It's probably an a.out binary (i.e. the native format used in FreeBSD 2.x), which is not supported by default on FreeBSD 5.1. See /usr/src/UPDATING or the release notes for more information. Kris
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