Subject: Re: Does the CVSup work on NetBSD?
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Shunji Kubota <kubota@icsd2.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/27/2000 07:48:38
Hi, Giles.

Thanks for your nice hints!
Using FreeBSD emulation, I get CVSup (FreeBSD-4 binary) to run
on my NetBSD/i386 1.5_ALPHA2!!

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:25:54AM +1100, Giles Lean wrote:
> > 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
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   Shunji Kubota        kubota@icsd2.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp