From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 22:12:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764C016A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:12:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.simplenet.com (mailer.simplenet.com [209.132.1.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAB943D1F for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:12:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) Received: from [209.132.9.116] (209.132.9.116) by mail1.simplenet.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as tt-list@simplenet.com) id 4222FA2900016B03 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:58:22 -0800 Message-ID: <4223771B.1010008@simplenet.com> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:55:07 -0800 From: Tim Traver User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 - [MOOX M2] (Windows/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <42217E4B.10102@simplenet.com> <20050228021741.GC13696@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050228021741.GC13696@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Running i386 scripts in 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:12:54 -0000 Thanks David, I will be looking forward to 5.4-RELEASE to try that out... In the mean time, I think I have to go ahead and build the box with i386... Tim. David O'Brien wrote: >On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:01:15AM -0800, Tim Traver wrote: > > >>ok, I have read a bunch of the posts on the subject, and it seems like a >>fairly complicated subject. >> >> >.. > > >>However, I didn't realize that there are several binaries that I need to >>run that are i386 binaries, and there is no way for me to re-compile them. >> >>I've tried the /usr/src/tools/lib32/build32.sh script, and although it >>appeared to work, there were many wanrings. When trying to run my >>binaries, it get core dumps. >> >>Is there a better way to do this ? or should I just recompile the kernel >>using i386 to be sure ? >> >> > >You should upgrade to a 5.4 prerelease snapshot (or just wait for >5.4-RELEASE). 5.4 will be released sometime in April. If you need >something now, CVSup to RELENG_5 and build your system (after this >weekend). > > > >>And is there a roadmap to get a nice clean method for running i386 >>binaries ? what about i386 binaries from 4.x ? >> >> > >There will a clean way to run i386 4.x binaries be for 5.4-RELEASE. > > >