[bf1942] Work around for 1.5 under FreeBSD

[g8 at the.whole.net]

I'd like to 3rd this.  I mirror Michael's comments below.  We rely on
FreeBSD as do many other large hosting houses.  I would also have to
resort to hackery (nice work Steve!) and pre-1.5 versions if this is not
fixed.  Thanks!

-g8

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Michael Ressen wrote:

> 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