In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe someone here knows. :-)
>
> I'm looking to compile a program that will ultimately run on a BSDi 2.1
> machine. Are there any versions of FreeBSD that are capable of doing the
> compile and creating a compatible binary? (I've got FreeBSD releases
> since 2.0.5 stashed away).
Yes, a.out static executables built under FreeBSD-2.2 will run under
BSD/OS-3.x and -4.x at least.
FreeBSD ELF executables won't work under BSD/OS, however, because
along with the switch to ELF the system call mechanism was changed
from "lcall 7,0" to the faster "int $0x80". BSD/OS doesn't support
the latter, apparently.
John
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