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A helpful person on the FreeBSD-questions mailing list gave me the answer: I had not installed one of the Linux compatibility packages that was needed. I now have IDL running just fine under FreeBSD. > I don't know about FreeBSD internals, but the IDL 5.2 ist based on > glibc2, maybe that is the problem... The Linux compatibility stuff in FreeBSD includes the appropriate Linux libraries and allows it to run most Linux binaries directly. -- Charles Allen -- ccallen@swbell.net --
In article <slrn7ttvoo.2un.charles@juniper.sweetshade.net>, charles@juniper.sweetshade.net (Charles Allen) writes: > > Anyone gotten IDL 5.2.1 going on FreeBSD 3.2 (Intel) using the Linux > distribution? I had little or no problem with 5.1 on an earlier > FreeBSD. With the current combo, I've: I don't know about FreeBSD internals, but the IDL 5.2 ist based on glibc2, maybe that is the problem... Peter -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.uu.nl/~suetter Sterrenkundig Instituut Utrecht Tel.: +31 (0)30 253 5225 P.Suetterlin@astro.uu.nl ____________________________________________________________ ______________