Subject: Re: "real" OpenBSD compat - how hard would it be?
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/20/2003 03:55:53
On 1048091614 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
>

>If it builds on OpenBSD, it should definitely build on NetBSD
>too, possibly with only minor adjustments to Makefiles.
>Is that in their 'ports' system?

ghc generates binaries so the fact that OpenBSD uses a.out and we
use ELF will cause a large difference.  It would be better to start
from an ELF arch not an a.out arch.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/