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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:45:36 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anyone interested in the SVR4 compat module anymore?
Message-ID:  <232850000.987194736@rushlight.rem.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010413153631.A14679@cec.wustl.edu>

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On Friday, April 13, 2001 15:36:31 -0500, ajh3@chmod.ath.cx wrote:
+----
| On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
| > I'm just now noticing (I so rarely turn it on) that the svr4 ABI
| > module is broken - you get "link_elf: symbol svr4_stream_get undefined"
| > when you try to load it.
| >
| > Unless someone wants to fix it before the 19th or so, I'll remove
| > it as a sysinstall option at the last minute so people new to 4.3
| > don't go "Huh?" - they'll have to work a little harder to confuse
| > themselves. :)
|
| I once tried to get Matlab for Solaris running with the svr4 ABI module.
+--->8

Solaris x86 isn't quite svr4 ABI (x86 version); Solaris x86 stuff tends not 
to work as expected.  Specifically, IIRC the shared object support is 
different, so static binaries tend to work but dynamic ones are unreliable.

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]
allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator        [WAY too many hats]
allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering
KF8NH carnegie mellon university      ["better check the oblivious first"
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