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From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
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Subject: Re: Sparc Binaries on FreeBSD-Sparc64
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From: "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j@efn.org>
> Scot W. Hetzel wrote this message on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 18:34 -0500:
> > I'm updating the MS FrontPage port, and they have Sparc Solaris 2.7, 2.8
> > binaries available for the MS FrontPage Extentions.  Will binaries
compile
> > for Sparc Solaris 2.7, 2.8 run on FreeBSD-Sparc64?
>
> There is the svr4 emulation layer, but it doesn't work under sparc64
> yet.  This is complicated by the fact that svr4 is for 32bit binaries
> and currently sparc64 only runs 64bit binaries.
>
> I have done some work on making svr4.  I have gotten it so that the
> elf32 binary from solaris is dispatched to the svr4 emulation layer,
> but it promptly fails due to no having completed the svr4 layer for
> signal delivery and the like.
>
> So, no, but it'd be great if someone got it working.
>
I'll mark the port BROKEN for Sparc64 due to the svr4 emulation layer isn't
working.

Thanks,

Scot