Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility?
To: Bill Dorsey <dorsey@lila.com>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/28/2001 15:31:28
On 710379336 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"Bill Dorsey" wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Are there any plans to update compat_linux to work on the Alpha?  Seems like
>this would be a real plus for a number of NetBSD/Alpha users as it would
>allow us to use Compaq's C/C++ compilers which offer vastly superior
>performance to egcs.  Perhaps more importantly, they will allow us to run

Although I haven't tried it yet, I believe that there is some
support in -current.  I am not sure if pkgsrc has the shared object
libraries as a nice package yet.

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