frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote:
I am no expert on Linux compatibility layer but similar issue is well documented with libasound.so.2 by people who were playing with Skype on OpenBSD. The solution is to get the missing library from a Linux system preferably Fedora Core 4 as the rest of OpenBSD compatibility. That would allow you to run the Opera. I suspect that missing library has something to do with ALSA but nobody is expecting Flash 10 and sound to work anyway. There is port of a library needed for now obsolete Maple V to run which was not the part of fedora-core. Mark ported it separately when he got Maple V to work. Current Maple 12 is a very long shot to work on OpenBSD even without Java. > alternatively, has anyone tried to run opera in freebsd emulation? > (like netbsd does) > This is very interesting question. I would really like to hear of anybody who is actually using any FreeBSD binaries now. My understanding that FreeBSD compatibility is for FreeBSD 4.xxx or at best FreeBSD 5.xxx so I am guessing that is the dead code. > i also see that netbsd has multiple emul platforms for opera (freebsd5, > solaris-sparc, and linux i386). would be perhaps easier following > netbsd in having suse libs instead of fedora core? > I think if you look archive little bit you will see by the statements of Nikoly Sturm and few other developers that Linux compatibility is more or less dead code. NetBSD amd64 will also allow you to run i386 binaries unlike OpenBSD which is an honest fully 64 bit OS. You could develop some kind a sandbox on amd64 to run i386 binaries including Linux 32 bit binaries. I am having very hard time to see how would that be commensurate with the goals of OpenBSD project. I think, I came across statements by developers who explicitly stated the same things. I am also having very hard time to see advantage of suse libraries over fedora. Quite on the contrary from where I sit Linux compatibility for me means RedHat (Fedora) compatible. There are so many other million times more interesting things to do develop on OpenBSD than to chase Linux compatibility, Opera, and ALSA. Cheers, Predrag
