Re: gub targets + binary packages

[John Mandereau]

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