From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 18 03:54:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB799B32 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:54:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147118B3 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r3I3ruB8009826 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:24:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Linux a.out binaries Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_53E4FB95-8033-48BE-8197-5982C812EB18"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20130418033937.GA20092@icarus.home.lan> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:23:56 +0930 Message-Id: <2F556011-3252-49E2-9B98-7478B89F0955@gsoft.com.au> References: <07612CF9-2DE4-4980-BF03-DF56FBC79BE1@gsoft.com.au> <20130418033937.GA20092@icarus.home.lan> To: Jeremy Chadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Spam-Score: -3.052 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:54:17 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_53E4FB95-8033-48BE-8197-5982C812EB18 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 18/04/2013, at 13:09, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> I presume it has rotted and was removed, does anyone know when? >=20 > Good lord, the number of possibilities here are almost endless. You > can't be serious... Perfectly! I don't think this is any worse than trying to run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries = on -current :) > My first inclination is to ask you if that FreeBSD system is amd64 or > i386. Your Linux a.out binaries are i386. >=20 > If the FreeBSD system is amd64: I don't think this is going to work; > I see nothing in /sys/amd64/conf/* that indicates a.out is supported. > Sure, 32-bit binaries might be (with COMPAT_FREEBSD32), but that's > architecture, not format. Yeah, I wondered if that was the case. It is an amd64 system. > If the FreeBSD system is i386: /sys/i386/conf/NOTES mentions a kernel > option called COMPAT_AOUT, which **is not** enabled in GENERIC. And = of > course don't forget COMPAT_LINUX. >=20 > Also worth noting is the BUGS section of a.out(5). It's looking like running it inside a FreeBSD 4 VM is the easier = solution :) Thankfully it doesn't get much use these days now the person who needs = it can run GDL. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_53E4FB95-8033-48BE-8197-5982C812EB18 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIINWTCCBjQw ggQcoAMCAQICAR4wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwfTELMAkGA1UEBhMCSUwxFjAUBgNVBAoTDVN0YXJ0 Q29tIEx0ZC4xKzApBgNVBAsTIlNlY3VyZSBEaWdpdGFsIENlcnRpZmljYXRlIFNpZ25pbmcxKTAn BgNVBAMTIFN0YXJ0Q29tIENlcnRpZmljYXRpb24gQXV0aG9yaXR5MB4XDTA3MTAyNDIxMDE1NVoX 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