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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: BSD Compat. Package under Solaris 2.x?
- Message-ID: <15513@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:23:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.121004.11709@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Distribution: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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-
- >Is there a BSD Compatibility Package for the Suns running under
- >Solaris 2.1/SunOs 5.x? We were discussing SysV in my Computer Systems
- >course a while back, and it seems like BSD and Xenix Compatibility
- >Packages were fairly common for all SysVR4 systems.
- >
- >We'd like to go with a newer Sun platform, but BSD compatibility is
- >important. Most of our users are not programmers, and would like to be
- >able to compile/run most software as-is that they FTP.
-
- auspex$ rlogin sloth
- Password:
- No directory! Logging in with home=/
- Last login: Mon Nov 16 11:23:23 from auspex
- Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.0 fcs June 1992
- sloth% ls /usr/ucblib
- libcurses.a libucb.a llib-ldbm llib-ltermcap.ln
- libdbm.a libucb.so llib-ldbm.ln llib-lucb
- librpcsoc.so libucb.so.1 llib-lrpcsoc llib-lucb.ln
- librpcsoc.so.1 llib-lcurses llib-lrpcsoc.ln ucblinks.awk
- libtermcap.a llib-lcurses.ln llib-ltermcap
-
- (This is distinct from the SunOS 4.x binary-compatibility package; the
- binary-compatibility package is done with an "ld.so" that will link with
- old-style libraries, while the libraries in "/usr/ucblib" are new-style
- - ELF, rather than "a.out" - shared libraries with routines that
- presumably offer BSD-compatibile interfaces.)
-
- Dunno if they have it in 5.1 as well, but they probably do.
-