On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:07:51AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
> how is 32 bit compat mode broken?  i have a sparc64 setup now and
> looking at netbsd32 lossage is what i've been wanting to do...
>

you cannot use the shared libraries due to the linker not recognising
them and the kernel refuses to exec a 32-bit executable:

[root@siren] ./ctags
-bash: ./ctags: cannot execute binary file
[root@siren] file ctags
ctags: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for NetBSD, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

I think Frank has purposely disabled 32bit emulation at the moment
because it is known-to-be borked. 

> 
> BTW, debian appears to support amd64 in unreleased ware.
> 

Cool, I may give that a go - mind you my problems with gentoo were
self generated I think, from the little I played with gentoo it
reminded me very strongly of our pkgsrc (I had someone else tell me
the same thing unprompted).

-- 
Brett Lymn