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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 1996 14:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mostyn/Annabella <mrl@teleport.com>
To:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Current, elfkit, linux ELF static bin
Message-ID:  <199607252142.OAA06919@linda.teleport.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960725164830.8213D-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Jul 25, 96 04:54:44 pm

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> 
> On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Mostyn/Annabella wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Running current with elfkit set up to provide /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> > seems to run hand rolled ELF bins fine.
> > However, importing an ELF linux static bin and running (after installing
> > the linux lkm) bombs.
> > The binary is the "Bulldozer" WYSIWYG HTML editor from
> > http://cscsun1.larc.nasa.gov/~rboykin/Dozer/
> > 
> > Running it gets
> > 
> > ./dozer
> > Memory fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > and produces a "garbled" directory which looks like
> > 
> > drw-r-----  2 root  wheel      512 Jul 23 15:45 <V?o/
> > 
> 
> The ld-elf.so.1 is only for linux executeables that are dynamically 
> linked.  When you do a 'file Bulldozer' (assuming that's the name of your 
> executeable) what does FreeBSD tell you (what type of file is it really?)

Thanks, I was aware of the dynamic loader - I was imprecise - statically
linked ELF bins made locally work too. I was only pointing out that it
seems the kernel image activator for ELF seemed to be working OK.

The "dozer" file, by the way, owns up to being ->

file dozer
dozer: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1

Mostyn



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