Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:52:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808162251410.21985-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980815011706.A19866@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > I am playing around with 3.0-19980804-SNAP on a quad PPro Dell > box. We primarily run NetBSD, and I was surprised that there are > no COMPAT_NETBSD options, and nothing in /usr/ports/emulators for > NetBSD. Is there any support (or planned support) for running > ``modern'' (post-1.2) NetBSD executables? When I try it, > executables bomb out on the stat13 syscall, and I'm guessing > there might be some other similar emulation issues involved. > > FWIW, NetBSD can run FreeBSD executables, so I can always > recompile everything under FreeBSD and run it on all our > machines, but I'd rather not invest that effort until we've > torture tested FreeBSD for a few days/weeks -- chicken-and-egg > problem. But it appears I have no choice? AFAIK FreeBSD hasn't tried to maintain binary compatibility to NetBSD, although if it builds on NetBSD it should compile on FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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