Is DFBSD capable of running binaries compiled for FreeBSD?
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Adventurous_Bus_1333 · 2023-05-08 17:12

I'm wondering if this is possible because I know DFBSD is based of an
older version of FreeBSD.

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desnudopenguino · 2023-05-08 20:05

Drop it on and try it out.

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n4jm4 · 2023-05-08 22:24

FreeBSD is not always capable of running binaries built to target
other FreeBSD versions. This is true of any operating system.

You can experiment for research purposes, but ideally you want to
recompile, for safety.

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Adventurous_Bus_1333 · 2023-05-08 23:13

Would any binary compiled for FreeBSD 4 be able to run on Dragonflybsd
with almost 100% certainty?

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jwbowen · 2023-05-08 23:14

I would not take those odds

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motific · 2023-05-08 23:56

Unless you can exercise every single code path then there is a good
chance that you may hit an edge case that causes it to die.

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n4jm4 · 2023-05-09 00:13

Coverage is a pale fraction of the input space, or the state space.

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alexnoyle · 2023-05-09 10:03

Sometimes.

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daemonpenguin · 2023-05-09 11:48

No.

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skullpepsi · 2023-05-12 07:27

point

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[deleted] · 2023-05-22 07:46

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