On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 10:38 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > To be honest I don't know because the binaries don't even start to > execute due to not having the correct libc. So what's the expected > procedure here? There is no libc in the installation tarball, is there > some documentation on what's needed? Do I need to install some > compatibility libraries? (A quick search suggested that they have been > dropped some years ago, but I may be missing something) > If the answer is "copy the libc from GUB" (which is not in the > tarball), I'd expect bad things to happen with two libc from different > "vendors" (BSD vs GNU) that are probably ABI- and possibly API- > incompatible.
I thought I would be able to find in the archives which compatibility libraries commonly available in FreeBSD are needed, but I couldn't find anything precise. This should be documented; if it's too much of a hassle to figure out, it may be a good reason to drop FreeBSD targets. Best, John