From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA06053 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:53:57 -0600 To: Stan Sieler cc: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox), parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility Reply-To: law@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:23:17 PDT. <199906211723.KAA39308@bart.allegro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:48:23 -0600 Message-ID: <14480.929987303@upchuck.cygnus.com> From: Jeffrey A Law List-ID: In message <199906211723.KAA39308@bart.allegro.com>you write: > The problem with translators is that they don't work in all cases. > > The most important case is where you want to link some .o files > together: some are compiled for Linux, some for HP-UX. > > *That's* why having different system call numbers is important. You really don't want to do that. I strongly recommend against it. In 5 years of working on a system which had hpux compatibility we had zero need to do this kind of stuff and it just makes things a lot more complicated than they need to be. If we wanted to build an hpux app, we had a set of tools to build hpux apps. jeff