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Date:      Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:14:53 +0100
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        abial@warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: running Linux ELF bins 
Message-ID:  <17244.836594093@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 1996 09:55:41 %2B0200." <199607050755.JAA24567@ra.dkuug.dk> 

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sos@FreeBSD.org wrote in message ID
<199607050755.JAA24567@ra.dkuug.dk>:
> In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I wonder if it's possible to run Linux ELF binaries under FreeBSD. There 
> > is a linux_libs in port collection, but I'm not sure if it allows to run 
> > QMAGIC only, ELF 32 only, or both. There is virtually no documentation in 
> > handbook and FAQs concerning this issue...
> 
> If you get the linux_libs package and installs all the libs therein, you
> should be running both QMAGIC & ELF bins. The support in the kernel is
> allready there as a LKM.

What Soren forgot to mention was that you need to be running -current
in order to use ELF binaries. -stable (and hence 2.1-RELEASE and the
forthcoming 2.1.5-RELEASE) does NOT support ELF binaries.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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