FlagShip Demo for Linux
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There are four different FlagShip ports for Linux, available on this ftp.
Additional details about the different FlagShip ports for Linux are available
in http://www.fship.com/linux.html

With the "FlagShip for Linux ELF and Glibc-2.1" available in the 
../linux-glibc-2.1 directory, you have the same advantages as with the 
Linux ELF port, but it can be used with the Glibc-2.1 (and newer) library
AND the egcs (1.1/2.91x) compiler only. The typical distributions are 
RedHat-6.x, SuSE-7.x, Caldera 2.x etc.
- The installation is in .rpm format, used e.g. by Red Hat. 
- When the /lib/libc.so.6 is not available on your system, use 
  the "FlagShip for Linux ELF & Libc" port instead.  
- When the /lib/libc.so.6 is available but not a link to /lib/libc-2.1.1.so,
  use the "FlagShip for Linux ELF & Glibc" port instead.  
- This FlagShip Demo is release 4.48.

With the "FlagShip for Linux ELF and Glibc" available in the ../linux-glibc
directory, you have the same advantages as with the Linux ELF port, but it
can be used with the libc.so release 6 and newer AND the gcc 2.7 or 2.8 
compiler only. The typical distributions are RedHat 5.x, SuSE 6.x etc.
- The installation is in .rpm format, used e.g. by Red Hat. 
- When the /lib/libc.so.6 is not available on your system, use 
  the "FlagShip for Linux ELF & Libc" port instead.  
- This FlagShip Demo is release 4.48.

With the "FlagShip for Linux ELF" available in the ../linux-elf directory,
- You can link statically or dynamically, and use the produced executables
  on any Linux ELF systems (1.2.13 and up, including 2.0.33).
- For using the FlagShip development, you will need gcc 2.7.0 or newer
  installed, see details in the section REL of the FlagShip manual.
- Do not use this port for glibc based kernel. When /lib/libc.so.6 is
  available on your system, use the "FlagShip for Linux ELF & Glibc" 
  or "FlagShip for Linux ELF & Glibc-2.1" port instead.
- This FlagShip Demo is release 4.48.

With the "FlagShip for Linux a.out format" in the ../linux-aout directory,
- You can link statically only, but use the produced executables on nearly
  any Linux system (starting from the 1.0 release), including Linux ELF.
- For using the FlagShip development, you will need gcc 2.5.8 or 2.7.0
  installed, see details in the section REL of the FlagShip manual.
- Do not use this port with the 2.0.31 and newer Kernel release.
- NB: the Linux format named "a.out" has nothing common with the name
  of the executable, but is the naming convention of the Linux binary
  format only.
- This FlagShip Demo is release 4.42.

Read also the ../README file for instructions