OT: minimac

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Feb 07 17:39 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
were reduced to tears as Bill Campbell confessed to all:" 

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005, ryanx at indy.rr.com wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Fairlight said:

> >> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Enrique Arredondo done said:
> >> > Can filepro run on the minimac's linux-like operating system ?
> >> 
> >> >From the specs at store.apple.com:

> >>      1.25GHz PowerPC G4

> >> The answer is, "No."  

> >> fP for Linux is x86-only, unless you go with their iSeries
> >> port, which is meant for...well, the iSeries CPU's.

> >I wonder why. Its compiled on on a PowerPC running 64-bit Linux.
> >Seems to me it should run on any like system. 

> It's possible that the build files that work on PowerPC Linux
> won't on OS X since darwin has some rather different options to
> handle linking of shared libraries.

And for those who are interesting in looking at how differnt *n*x
OSes sources handle things you might try  http://fxr.watson.org

Current there are browseable sources for FreeBSD 3-STABLE
thru FreeBSD 6-CURRENT, Linux 2.4.22, Linux 2.6.9, DragonFlyBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, Apple Darwin 7, OpenDarwin 6.3, and four
TrustedBSD variants.

Also some links including the *BSD Source Code Tour.

Sort of a one-stop source code comnpare.

Bill
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