Subject: Re: HP-UX X server (was: kernel build...)
To: Mike Hibler <mike@fast.cs.utah.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 08/27/1998 10:12:08
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:52:47 -0600 
 mike@fast.cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler) wrote:

 > Here is what we did for many years on our BSD hp300s (and still do on our
 > BSD hp700s).  We have an "hpux" command which does what you describe: chroot
 > to /hpux and then feed the rest of the command line to a shell to execute.
 > So you could do things like "hpux cc file.c" if you wanted to compile a file
 > with the HP-UX compiler.  Then we populate the /hpux tree with PUX binaries
 > as you did (or, just NFS mount an HP-UX machine on /hpux, though there were
 > problems with special files that way).

Amusingly enough, this is not necessary in NetBSD.  Put the HPUX stuff in
/emul/hpux and then the HPUX programs will look there for the files first
(this is handled in the kernel).

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