[parisc-linux] RE: Status of hp-ux binary compatibility?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Marvin [mailto:jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: nneul@umr.edu
> Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
> Subject: Re: Status of hp-ux binary compatibility?
> 
> 
> Nathan,
> 
> hp-ux compatibility is definitely broken. It probably 
> wouldn't take too
> much effort to get it back to where it was before, however the best we
> ever did was to run some simple text based programs that were linked
> archive (-Wl,-aarchive). We didn't even have shared libraries working.

Would "gcc -static" be sufficient? Oh... no shared libs either? ick. I
suppose that means that anything linked against /usr/lib/libc.1 won't work.
Bummer. 

Y'all might want to clarify the FAQ, cause it sure hints at a different
story about what the status is. 

> Just out of curiosity, what type of HP-UX binaries did you 
> want to run?
> If it is 3D graphics based, or it uses a bunch of HP-UX proprietary
> kernel calls, ioctl's, etc. it isn't likely to work anytime soon ...

I sent this in another note, but I'm wanting to get flexlm running.

>From what you're saying above, sounds like it might be less work to
relicense, even though that's a pain in the butt. 

-- Nathan