Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: UNIX binary compatibility Keywords: Interactive AT&T Message-ID: <15977@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 19 Oct 90 06:42:01 GMT References: <15169@netcom.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 18 In article <15169@netcom.UUCP> jim@netcom.UUCP (Jim Nelson) writes: >Are Interactive Unix 386/ix 2.0.2 and AT&T System V/386 Release >3.2.2 binary compatible? I would like to run X-windows binary >(compiled on Interactive using GCC 1.37.1) on a 386 running >AT&T Release 3.2.2. If not, does anyone know where I can get >the X-window binaries for AT&T Unix? Any suggestions would >be very helpfull. Interactive and AT&T are highly binary compatible however any program which makes use of ISC's various bits of wondrous value adding -- extra ioctl's etc -- may bomb on vanilla AT&T. X is pretty complicated. I would try to build it on the target OS just as a matter of principle. -- A doubled signature is the devil's work. ** Tom Neff -- A doubled signature is the devil's work. ** Tom Neff