Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:47:01 +1000 From: "Jim Prettyman" <jimprettyman@gmail.com> To: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running i386 binaries on amd64 Message-ID: <af7830470605112347p69b2857cy5c647c722f22e516@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead720605112313h51ffd83dm82b895623f4c6e27@mail.gmail.com> References: <af7830470605112305i29d5bf39o15098c39835ba943@mail.gmail.com> <84dead720605112313h51ffd83dm82b895623f4c6e27@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/12/06, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have just installed FreeBSD-6.1-R on an athlon64 box, which is my > > first ever experience with amd. I was under the impression that the > > amd64 machines could run binaries built for the i386, but I'm not > > having much luck with the system as it is now. > > What are the symptoms you see? My initial test was with bash from my i386 box. It failed to run with 'Shared object "linintl.so.6" not found'. That lib exists in /usr/local/lib, but is presumably the wrong type for the i386 binary to use. > > Am I trying to do something that can't be done? Or is there some magic > > that I need to apply first? > > You need 'COMPAT_IA32' compiled into the kernel, but this should > be part of the default GENERIC kernel. Indeed, that is set in GENERIC, and I'm using the default kernel.
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