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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-mannheim.de!andrew From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: How to make NetBSD-1.2 i386 execute ELF binaries Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:55:29 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5cq98h$cam@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> References: <32ED6F29.41C67EA6@oz.net> <5clb32$g3o$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <5cpkvv$7u4@doom> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5216 In article <5cpkvv$7u4@doom>, Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com> wrote: >In article <5clb32$g3o$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr>, > bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) writes: >>Yes. Put COMPAT_LINUX or COMPAT_SVR4 in your kernel config file (they are >>mutually exclusives). >Hmmm! Not very nice of GENERIC to have come with both defined and >not commented as such. They are not mutually exclusive except for ELF binaries so if you leave both of them defined you can run a.out binaries from both linux and svr4, and whichever elf-format gets checked first (Linux as far as I remember) from one or the other system but not both. Also for newer Versions of NetBSD you need to add: EXEC_ELF32 Cheerio -- The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. (Mark Twain) current release=doc host=netbsd.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror" hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix