Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:14:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ELF32 (i386) binaries on amd64 -- any forecast? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040723211421.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040724012014.GB14088@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On 24-Jul-2004 Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:51:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> While attempting to run binaries compiled on my old 32-bit Athlon >> box for i386 FreeBSD, I ran head-on, of course, into the problem of >> having no loader for ELF32 on amd64. Is there currently any work >> in progress on this? Will we eventually see full "COMPAT32" support >> come to pass? >> >> What is the intended functionality of the "COMPAT_IA32" option, and >> how does one use it, exactly? Is it actually functional at present? >> >> This would be such an enormously useful capability to have, I'm sure >> I'm not the only one with more than a passing interest. > > You need to run /usr/src/tools/lib32/build32.sh with cwd set to > /usr/src to build the 32-bit loader & basic libraries. > > It works. :-) Cool! Thanks! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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