[bf1942] Work around for 1.5 under FreeBSD

[Michael Ressen]

Andreas,

I'm gonna second Steve's request for a static binary from the debian
base.   Some of us who host servers do so on our business systems, and
many of the folks doing that run BSD, and do not wish to use the RedHat
base.   I also own my own servers and use BSD for reasons other than
gaming compatibility, so an OS change is not in the cards, nor is
changing the linux-compat to Redhat.   Without a solution, as Steve puts
it, I'll have to either leave mine as is (pre-1.5), or remove them
completely.

/Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fredriksson [mailto:andreas.fredriksson at dice.se] 
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:14 AM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Work around for 1.5 under FreeBSD
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> yes this release was statically built from gentoo which might 
> explain why it's misbehaving for some people.
> 
> If it poses a great problem I can continue to statically link 
> the binary under my user-mode linux debian, but I'd rather 
> not because that's a pretty long-wounded process everything I 
> link the static binary.
> 
> // Andreas
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Hartland [mailto:killing at barrysworld.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 3:06 AM
> > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Subject: [bf1942] Work around for 1.5 under FreeBSD
> > 
> > 
> > Looks likes somethings changed with the build environment
> > at Dice and as you may have seen from my earlier posts. Running 1.5 
> > under FreeBSD 5.1 with debian base no longer works. There are two 
> > potential workarounds for this, that I have found. Both using the 
> > "dynamic" exe NOT the "static"
> > exe:
> > 1. Use Redhat 8 base
> > 2. Update your debian base to use glibc 2.3.2
> > 
> > 1. will most likely be the simplest for most people but we
> > all know how bloated redhat is so many will want to stick 
> > with debian base which is possible if you know what your doing.
> > 
> > This will not be the solution for all as both have serious
> > compatibility issues with other games e.g. jk2 and natural 
> selection.
> > 
> >     Steve / K
> > Hopefully we can get a updated build which will once again 
> work using 
> > the static exe.
> > 
> >     Steve / K
> > 
>