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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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