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From: please_send_lots_of_junkmail_to_dave@mrquiz.org_NOT! (Dave Simons)
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Subject: FreeBSD
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Thanks to all those who answered my recent query. I'm used to looking
for answers in the NG's: most of them came by E-mail.

The answers all centered around the different versions of libc. What
happens is that FreeBSD seems to use libc.4 for its own purposes and
libc.6 in its Linux compatibility mode. Both are present on the
machine. By playing around with soft links I was able to get
hello.world to compile without the error message, but not to stop the
compiled program crashing. In view of the total absence of replies in
the FreeBSD newsgroups and the lack of any answer in this group from
anyone who has succeeded in using Beta on FreeBSD, I have to assume
it's never been done. Unfortunately, I don't believe I'm the person
with the ability to do it. You win some, you lose some. C'est la vie.

Cheers,

Dave.