From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 18:24:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21849 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:24:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from date.sci.csupomona.edu (date.sci.csupomona.edu [134.71.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21844 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (jehamby@localhost) by date.sci.csupomona.edu (8.6.8/8.6.8) id SAA03297; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:24:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:24:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can we run Solaris binaries? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@cs.sci.csupomona.edu Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------