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From: jack ass <matth3w@cyberspace.org>
To: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
cc: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co>, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Linux's asWedit doesnt work under 2.1.5 emulation
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> 
> Well, you STILL need the option in the kernel. Without the COMPAT_LINUX
> option all Linux executables I tried (netscape, asWedit) will crash with
> Bus error on my system (2.1 and 2.1.5).
> 
> >And ran:
> >apolo# ./asWedit
> >Bus error (core dumped)
> >
> >Doesn't work! the version labelled *dyn shows a exec error format.
> 
> *dyn ? You know, that you need the STATICALLY linked Linux executable ?
> 
> ciao
>   lutz

dunno if anyone cares, but the newer snapshots ( think 960501 on) emulate
linux quite a bit better than 2.1 or 2.1.5  I've ran the linux version of
netscape and asWedit.  No need to compile anything extra into the kernel.
Never had a problem with it.

entropy