Subject: Re: Does the CVSup work on NetBSD?
To: Shunji Kubota <kubota@icsd2.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp>
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/27/2000 08:25:54
> I want to use CVSup on NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2. It does not seem
> available in pkgsrc, so I try to compile it from source...
> CVSup says it requires the Modular-3 system, but I can't
> get it to work because it needs a (binary) bootstrap program
> which is only available for NetBSD in a.out format.

What platform are you running on?  If you're on i386 which has changed
from a.out to ELF you should still be able to run a.out binaries.

> Does anyone get CVSup to work on NetBSD?

$ uname -smr
NetBSD 1.4ZD i386
$ file /usr/local/bin/cvsup
/usr/local/bin/cvsup: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged executable

Regards,

Giles