Subj : FreeBSD query
To   : Frank Reid
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sun Jan 09 2005 11:00 am

  Re: FreeBSD query
  By: Frank Reid to Angus Mcleod on Sun Jan 09 2005 07:03:00

 >  > IOW, if I grab something like the 'wget' binary from the 5.2 machine and
 >  > copy it onto the 4.4 machine, will it work on the 4.4 machine?
 > 
 > I guess "sometimes" is the best answer.

I was afraid of that.  :-/

 > Basically, if the external library dependencies haven't changed between
 > architectures (meaning the binary is relatively simple and static), then
 > it'll probably run on the new machine.  I suspect more often than not,
 > you're going to find you need to recompile it for the new box.

Fair enough -- only I want binaries from the NEW box to run on the OLD 
one.

 > I like to build from ports, but I understand if bandwidth is a challenge,
 > that might be difficult.

It isn't that so much.  I don't have full access to the machine (4.4) so I 
can't run the compiler and/or build from ports.  But there are a few 
utilities that would be damned handy to have (like 'wget' and mayne the 
ImageMagick toolset, etc).  I have FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2 here (unopened) so 
I could concievably set up a system here and copy the files onto the 4.4 
server but I'm not sure they'd run.

 > FreeBSD does maintain a current binary ports tree online (as well as 
 > many places to get the entire precompiled ports tree on CD for very 
 > cheap).  Your best bet would be either to compile the port from the 
 > ports tree on the new platform (after cvsup'ing the tree)

If only I could!

 > or, at least, installing the precompiled binary port from FreeBSD for te
 > target.

But to find one for 4.4.....


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