Re: timeseal program doesn't work with FreeBSD-5.1

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:49:01AM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I usuallly play chess on FICS. They use a programme
> called "Timeseal", which is pre-compiled for a lot
> of different platforms (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc).
> 
> This program adjust clocks when network delay appears
> or something like that, I'm not an expert on the subject.
> 
> The problem is that this program use to work on FreeBSD-4.X
> but it's not working any longer with FreeBSD-5.0
> 
> When I exec: timeseal.FreeBSD www.freechess.org 5000 this
> error appears:
> 
> bash: ./timeseal.FreeBSD: cannot execute binary file
> 
> "ldd" shows this:
> 
> ldd: timeseal.FreeBSD: not a dynamic executable
> 
> Why is binary compatibility broken with this executable ?

It's probably an a.out binary (i.e. the native format used in FreeBSD
2.x), which is not supported by default on FreeBSD 5.1.  See
/usr/src/UPDATING or the release notes for more information.

Kris