Subject: Re: Solaris emulation
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/20/1996 22:04:06
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Scott L. Burson wrote:

> 
>    From: "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch>
>    Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:07:02 +0100
> 
>    Or should I try to convince xlock to use NetBSD's X libraries (but these
>    are X11R6, whereas Solaris's are X11R5, there are likely to be
>    incompatibilities) ?
> 
> I'm no expert on this, but I have run R5 applications with R6 libraries
> without problems.  My guess is that this is the way to go.

Better yet: copy the X11R5 libs from solaris. Running native libs ought 
to be safer IMHO.

Peter