FreeBSD Port: setiathome-3.03_7

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 05:13:52PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Hallo Peter Schultz,
> 
> > I have been given the source code for setiathome-3.08 to build an
> > updated version for FreeBSD.  Since I'm running 4.8-STABLE, I'd like to
> > add support for all versions of FreeBSD i386 2.2.5-4.x, as has been done
> > with the current binary. I'm sure there must be numerous ways to do 
> > this, and I'm hoping someone can advise me.
> 
> If you want to support FreeBSD 2.2.x you must create a.out binaries.
> Best way to do this is on a FreeBSD 2.2.x System.
> modern FreeBSD will run will be able to run this stil.
> Not sure how good cross-compiling for a.out works,
> but I can test on 2.2.8 here.

Support for a.out binaries on 5.0 requires a kernel compatibility
option.  A native 4.x/5.0 ELF version (as well as the 2.x a.out
version) would be better.

> # file /usr/local/sbin/setiathome
> /usr/local/sbin/setiathome: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged executable
> 
> It would be nice to have some versions optimzed ...

Yes.

Kris
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