Okay, I tried the directions on compat_svr4.  I now get:

Bad system call

 The only difference (perhaps it matters, but I don't think so) is
that I did not copy the openwindows files.

 Suggestions?  Thanks for all the help so far!

Gordon


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:21:46 +0000 (UTC), Christos Zoulas
<christos@tac.gw.com> wrote:
> In article <19cd069f050104145730d25682@mail.gmail.com>,
> Gordon Zaft  <gordonzaft@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Well, I followed the directions in the compat_sunos manpage:
> >
> > http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi/man?compat_sunos+8+NetBSD-current
> >
> > I copied the appropriate (hopefully) libraries from my Solaris 8 box
> >(also an SS20).  Note that Sol8 has /usr/4lib and /usr/lib, which is
> >not what the manpage talks about. I copied what the manpage called
> >"lib" from "4lib" and what it called "5lib" from "lib" since this is a
> >Solaris box.  At least, I hope that's right.
> >
> > Next I downloaded the latest sparc jdk (1.5.0_01) and tried to
> >install it. No dice, the .sh script is not happy, claims there's an
> >error.  So I installed it on my Solaris box (needed to anyway), then
> >tar-ed up the directory and ftp-ed it to my NetBSD 2.0 box, untarred
> >it and ran Java and got:
> >
> >./java: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
> >
> > So. Suggestions anyone?  Doesn't anyone want to run Java on this port
> >besides me?
> 
> You need compat_svr4 for it. compat_sunos is for sunos-4.x
> 
> christos
> 
> 


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