Subject: Re: A new user's comments
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/1995 20:26:07
In some email I received from Scott L. Burson, they wrote:
>
> After I got the system running, it became evident that the SunOS binary
> compatibility is not quite where I need it to be to permanently change
> over to
> NetBSD. I tried to start my SunOS X11R5, but `xinit' got a bad system call
> error. Okay, I *can* rebuild X11R5, though I don't relish the thought, but I
> also have some executables I can't rebuild, notably Franz Allegro Common Lisp
> (which says "Can't allocate memory" when I try to run it). And so I have
> some
> questions. What is the degree of commitment to the SunOS compatibility? Is
> 100% compatibility a goal, or even possible? When I try an executable and it
> doesn't work, how can I get more information about what went wrong? Do I
> have
> any hope of fixing the problem or will that take a wizard? Are any of these
> problems likely to have been fixed already in the latest version?
Well, I run X11R5 compiled for SunOS 4.1.x with no problems under
NetBSD-current. tcsh was a problem at one stage, but I now think it has
been fixed (that or I compiled tcsh for netbsd).
darren