From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 22:24:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA27011 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:24:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA26994 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (graichen.dialup.fu-berlin.de [160.45.217.183]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id HAA14148 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 07:24:46 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA04187; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:15:55 +0100 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Can we run Solaris binaries? Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:15:54 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 25 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4iplha$41i@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery