On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:30:34 -0700, Ed Gould <ed@left.wing.org> wrote:

> I installed the www/firefox-bin package, with the MOZILLA_USE_LINUX 
> flag set.  All went as expected during the installation.  When I try to 
> run the binary, I get
> 
>     /usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/firefox-bin: 1: Syntax error: "(" 
> unexpected
> 
> This looks like some sort of compatibility flag missing, but I don't 
> see what it is.  I have all the COMPAT_* options enabled, except for 
> versions of NetBSD prior to 2.0 (this machine runs -current, last 
> updated a few days ago), 4.3BSD, MACH and DARWIN.  If it's one of 
> those, then the documentation needs improving.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
That error typically means it's being interpreted by the shell as a shell
script -- it doesn't have any magic numbers that the kernel recognizes
(and hence exec fails), so the shell tries to run it itself.  

Why that should happen in this case i don't know.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb