Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:15:54 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can we run Solaris binaries? Message-ID: <4iplha$41i@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960319182102.3286C-100000@date>
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Jake Hamby (jehamby@date.sci.csupomona.edu) wrote:
: 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?
would be worth to look at NetBSD - i think they are getting forward step by
step in running solaris/x86 binaries - maybe you may get some of their ideas
to FreeBSD :-)
t
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