Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:44:01 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ELF32 (i386) binaries on amd64 -- any forecast? Message-ID: <20040726094402.896E443D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:20:14 %2B1000 .
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> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:51:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > While attempting to run binaries compiled on my old 32-bit Athlon box > > for i386 FreeBSD, I ran head-on, of course, into the problem of having > > no loader for ELF32 on amd64. Is there currently any work in progress > > on this? Will we eventually see full "COMPAT32" support come to pass? > > > > What is the intended functionality of the "COMPAT_IA32" option, and how > > does one use it, exactly? Is it actually functional at present? > > > > This would be such an enormously useful capability to have, I'm sure > > I'm not the only one with more than a passing interest. > > You need to run /usr/src/tools/lib32/build32.sh with cwd set to /usr/src > to build the 32-bit loader & basic libraries. > > It works. :-) > not for me ;-( i get: [...] /r+d/5.2/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/i386/sha1-586.s:1532: Error: `56(%esp)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression is this fixable? danny
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