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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Anyone try BMRT Linux binaries on NetBSD-current? Date: 22 Aug 1995 18:31:08 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <41d7pc$n2m@news.cloud9.net> References: <412vin$s0k@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <414tnq$j29@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <DDo5vs.5E3@iquest.net> <41c575$f2j@dianne.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <41c575$f2j@dianne.fwi.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >alewis@iquest.net (Ziggy Stardust) writes: > >> This may be a faq thing, but what is this 'compatiblity' stuff all >>about? Ive been with teh linux camp since the beginnning, but want to >>switch to something more stable..( and multi platform ) though i cant >>loose some of the binaries ive got....thanks.. >> > >Since february, NetBSD/i386 supports running Linux binaries. Both a.out >and ELF binaries are supported, and the vast majority of binaries should >run without problems. There are a few exceptions, but not many, they are: [...] >Note that you will need to run NetBSD-current to be able to use this feature; >the last 'official' release (NetBSD-1.0) did not have it yet. For running >NetBSD-current, you will need to install 1.0 and then either unpack a >binary snapshot, or do the compilation yourself. You can get a binary snapshot which supports this from ftp.wasabi.com. You'll have to pick up the appropriate Linux shared libraries elsewhere, for the moment. I'll probably put them on ftp.wasabi.com soon. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. --Bo Diddley