From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 13 12:02:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20007 for current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19994 Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA09178; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:59:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603131959.MAA09178@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... To: sos@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:59:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, amurai@spec.co.jp, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603130723.IAA06378@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Mar 13, 96 08:23:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > The upshot of all this is that the COMPAT_LINUX flag should go away; > > > it's a pain in the ass to have to rebuild a kernel in order to run > > > Linux binary compatability. > > > > I agree. In connection with the current Linux emulation, this is the > > #1 question I get ("I try to run my Linux binary and it says can't > > execute binary file, what do I doooooooo?!"). > > You guys should read your commits mail a little closer :) > It is no longer needed to have the compat linux option in there > and hasn't been for at least a week or so :) :) > If you want to link the emulator in statically, you would need > an options LINUX... > > Someone should probably fix the FAQ and such, but it is ONLY true > for -current... Uh, I was really thinking of failing to load as opposed to failing to activate the image in the case that the ABI module wasn't present. Unconditionally including the code when the ABI module wasn't loaded was *not* what I was talking about when I said it should "go away". 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.