Subject: Re: SVR4 emulation and network connections
To: Andrew Basterfield <bob@cemetery.homeunix.org>
From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme@comcast.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/27/2003 14:00:02
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 13:30, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:54:32 -0600
> Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:24:42PM -0500, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> > > As for Solaris 9 libs, I couldn't get *anything* to work- constant
> > > SIGSEGV from everhting. Of course, I suppose that could be from
> > > trying to use libraries from an OS which does not support my
> > > hardware. (Are Solaris 9 libs compiled for v7?)
> > 
> > I believe Solaris 9 drops support for sun4c.
> 
> Solaris 8 dropped support for sun4c

Which means I should probably stick to Solaris 7 or earlier libs on an
SS2.

Hmm... I wonder if this should be added to a port-sparc FAQ (i.e., some
kind of warning regarding using libs from an OS which supports the HW
architecture/CPU).

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John Ruschmeyer
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