Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:23:56 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux a.out binaries Message-ID: <2F556011-3252-49E2-9B98-7478B89F0955@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20130418033937.GA20092@icarus.home.lan> References: <07612CF9-2DE4-4980-BF03-DF56FBC79BE1@gsoft.com.au> <20130418033937.GA20092@icarus.home.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 18/04/2013, at 13:09, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> wrote: >> I presume it has rotted and was removed, does anyone know when? > > Good lord, the number of possibilities here are almost endless. You > can't be serious... Perfectly! I don't think this is any worse than trying to run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries on -current :) > My first inclination is to ask you if that FreeBSD system is amd64 or > i386. Your Linux a.out binaries are i386. > > If the FreeBSD system is amd64: I don't think this is going to work; > I see nothing in /sys/amd64/conf/* that indicates a.out is supported. > Sure, 32-bit binaries might be (with COMPAT_FREEBSD32), but that's > architecture, not format. Yeah, I wondered if that was the case. It is an amd64 system. > If the FreeBSD system is i386: /sys/i386/conf/NOTES mentions a kernel > option called COMPAT_AOUT, which **is not** enabled in GENERIC. And of > course don't forget COMPAT_LINUX. > > Also worth noting is the BUGS section of a.out(5). It's looking like running it inside a FreeBSD 4 VM is the easier solution :) Thankfully it doesn't get much use these days now the person who needs it can run GDL. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 010 + 0 *H Y0400 *H 0}10 UIL10U StartCom Ltd.1+0)U"Secure Digital Certificate Signing1)0'U StartCom Certification Authority0 071024210155Z 171024210155Z010 UIL10U StartCom Ltd.1+0)U"Secure Digital Certificate Signing1806U/StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Client CA0"0 *H 0 -).2AUGo#G B|NDRpM-B=o-we5JQpa>O.#._<V [~**pz~3WG .ᘟMlr[<Ce6fqO"uxfWN#uicgkv$Lb%y`_{`xK'GN 00U00U0USr풜\|~5NԸQ0U#0N@[i04hCA0f+Z0X0'+0http://ocsp.startssl.com/ca0-+0!http://www.startssl.com/sfsca.crt0[UT0R0'%#!http://www.startssl.com/sfsca.crl0'%#!http://crl.startssl.com/sfsca.crl0U y0w0u+70f0.+"http://www.startssl.com/policy.pdf04+(http://www.startssl.com/intermediate.pdf0 *H }x,\c^#wMq}>UK/^yX֏y frMIŲB61ymQҨݬZ0&
