I tried everything.

I did verify that statically compiled files are working, tar, cp, and rcp   
from the sbin/static/ directory worked fine.

I went into the bin directory and tried cal and got the infamous Exec   
format error, Wrong Architecture.

I examined cat and other files that wouldn't work and saw that they are   
all ELF files.  This wouldn't be the problem would it?

This is i386 Solaris 2.4, I could go back to 2.1 and check to see if it   
works.

jam
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From:  Gordon W. Ross[SMTP:gwr@mc.com]
Sent:  Wednesday, January 24, 1996 11:06 AM
To:  JohnAM
Cc:  mrg
Subject:  RE: Should SVR4 dynamically-linked executables work?

> From: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
> Cc: "'current-users'" <current-users@netbsd.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 14:16:00 PST
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>
> Okay, maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong...
>
> 1) I've made a new kernel with options (rebooted and am using it)
> options         COMPAT_SVR4     # binary compatibility with SVR4
> options         COMPAT_IBCS2    # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC
> options         COMPAT_LINUX    # binary compatibility with Linux
>
> 2) I created directories:
> /emul/svr4/lib
> /emul/svr4/kvm
> /emul/svr4/openwin/lib

The emulation stuff just prepends "/emul/svr4" (or whatever)
onto the actual path name passed by the system call.
Therefore, you need:

/emul/svr4/usr/lib
/emul/svr4/usr/kvm
/emul/svr4/usr/openwin/lib

> 3) copied and made symbolic links to all the libraries. (just like the   
    

> source tree) I am using the Solaris 2.4.

Maybe you could just make a symlink in /emul/svr4 like:
 . -> usr

Gordon