From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 5 12:17:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29051 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29035 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA17246; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:14:54 +0100 (BST) To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: abial@warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: running Linux ELF bins In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 1996 09:55:41 +0200." <199607050755.JAA24567@ra.dkuug.dk> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:14:53 +0100 Message-ID: <17244.836594093@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info