porting: Linux to Freebsd

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Jun 8 10:35:56 UTC 2009


On 2009-Jun-08 01:01:32 -0400, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>	Is there anyone out there with experience porting from Linux to
>FreeBSD and/or writing code for both who can spare a few cycles to
>help a complete novice figure out what's different (and how to fix
>it)?

That's an extremely open-ended question.  Probably the biggest issue
is the use of GNU extensions in system utilities - particularly the
assumption that /bin/sh is bash.

You would probably be better off asking specific questions on problems
that you run into.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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