Subj : FreeBSD query
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Jan 09 2005 04:44 pm

  Re: FreeBSD query
  By: Angus Mcleod to All on Sat Jan 08 2005 19:39:00

 > If I have a machine running FreeBSD 4.9 (or 5.2) and another running 4.4,
 > can I FTP executables from the later version machine to the earlier and
 > hope they will work?
 > 
 > 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?

If you have the compat-4 distribution set installed, the answer is "most
likely" 4.4 -> 4.9 is more likely to work than 4.4 -> 5.3 though... mostly
due to shared lib issues.  There is a file whose name I can't remember in /etc
(libmap.conf?) that can be used to force the 4.x binaries to load the correcy
libs on 5.x (Mostly, it's a pthread issue... pthreads are done using
libpthread.so on 5.x and libc_r on 4.x)

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