Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:24:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@date.sci.csupomona.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can we run Solaris binaries? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960319182102.3286C-100000@date>
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I know this has been covered before, but what is the status (as of
-current) for running SVR4 ELF binaries under FreeBSD? The reason I ask
is that I just ordered a copy of Solaris 2.5 for x86 (at the low low
academic discount price of $119), basically for the goodies (Motif, CDE,
Deskset tools, WABI, Display Postscript, XGL/XIL, etc..), which
ultimately I would like to run under FreeBSD. If I copy all the shared
libraries and the applications to my FreeBSD partition, what are the
chances that I can run them in ELF emulation mode?
If this doesn't work, that is one area I would like to try to hack on,
especially since we can already run Linux AND FreeBSD ELF binaries, and,
for my purposes, I won't need to emulate the shared libraries. Comments?
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