On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> Hi, I am toying around the idea of whether I should try fbsd. Among the
> many questions, I am wondering whether you can run Borland's Kylix under
> fbsd? Thanks.
I downloaded the Kylix demo and ran the test script that determines
whether the target system is up to snuff for Kylix requirements. Here's
what it tells me:
Borland Kylix System Compatibility Test
Checking loader....FAILED
Checking kernel >= 2.2....OK
Checking libc >= 2.1.2....OK
Stat: No such file or directory
Checking libjpeg >= 6.2.0....FAILED
This system is not compatible with Borland Kylix. Please see the
documents in this directory for information on how to upgrade your
system.
This is with linux_base-6.1, however. I'm upgrading to linux_base-7.1_1
as we speak, and will report back my findings. For the curious, the
accompanying documents say the following with regard to the two failures
above:
-- A bug in some versions of the glibc loader can cause data
corruption during the dynamic loading and unloading of shared
objects. The result can be spontaneous segmentation faults in
unrelated programs. Kylix is particularly sensitive to this bug,
and will not install if the bug is present. The loader bug has
been reported to glibc's maintainers, who have incorporated a fix
in glibc 2.2. Systems which cannot upgrade to glibc 2.2 require
a patched version of glibc 2.1.2 or later.
-- Kylix requires libjpeg 6.2 or higher. (Some, but not all, Kylix
applications also have this requirement.) An RPM package for this
version is provided.
I don't know what the stat error is from. Maybe I'll truss to check that
out too.
For the record, even if Kylix doesn't work, you should try out FreeBSD.
Geoff
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