Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 16:30:53 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation Message-ID: <32A7693D.42F2@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961204195019.1501A-100000@server.fasts.com> <9612050912.AA20676@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >When netbsd's svr4 emulation will be ported to FreeBSD? > > Well, what's the application you want it for? > How about WABI for SolarisX86 (it´s available isn´t it)? but there´s also a Linux version now...would have to find out which is cheaper, but Linux´s version would, almost surely, always be better supported by FreeBSD. Does this emulation include Unixware? > > The only real issue is keeping Linux ELF binaries and Solaris Binaries > (with are always ELF) different. NetBSD has the same problem. Most > folks ended up compiling only one of Linux ELF *or* SVR4 into their > kernels. > > In a word: Nothing I want to beat my head against. > FreeBSD distinguishes between Linux´s ELF and fbsd´s ELF (never have seen one of those though) but I don´t know if there´s an additional tag in FBSD´s ELF´s for that purpose. I always run a.out´s (I use 2.1.5), is there any particular advantage in using ELF? Pedro. > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 > "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- > plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin
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