Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:17:48 -0800 (PST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Thomas Stephens <tas@altavista.net>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD/OS Emulation Status? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902112311220.1767-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <19990212134553.R491@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 21:25:59 -0800, Thomas Stephens wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what the current status of BSD/OS emulation is? My > > understanding is ELF binaries (and shared libraries) aren't supported. > > Is this correct and, assuming it is, are there plans to add such > > support? > > That's been a lot of silence, hasn't it? > > I had thought that we would now be compatible with BSD/OS ELF, so to > check it I dragged out my BSD/OS 3.0 CD-ROMs, which I thought > contained ELF binaries, but what I saw was: > > /cdrom/7/bin/[: Infocom game data (Z-machine 8, Release 0, > /cdrom/7/bin/bash: BSD/OS i386 compact demand paged executable (uses shared libs) > /cdrom/7/bin/cat: Infocom game data (Z-machine 8, Release 0, > /cdrom/7/bin/chmod: Infocom game data (Z-machine 8, Release 0, > > They definitely contain no ELF string. What are these things? Is > that what you have? If you compile a binary without shared libraries (eg. gcc2 foo.c) it should be ok, but it appears that FreeBSD doesn't support BSD/OS 3.x's wacky and screwed up static shared library system. BSDI 4.x supposedly uses dynamic shared libraries; if they work or not is another question, but I think support for them is more likely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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