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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>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation?
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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


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