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From: frank@wins.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make NetBSD-1.2 i386 execute ELF binaries
Date: 31 Jan 1997 10:53:26 +0100
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tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:

>> Yes. Put COMPAT_LINUX or COMPAT_SVR4 in your kernel config file (they are
>> mutually exclusives).

>They are not. It's just that because there is no good way to determine
>under which OS an ELF binary must run NetBSD sometimes has trouble to
>identify Linux binaries if both emulations are available.

To be more exact: they get in eachothers way for _static_ ELF binaries only.

- Frank