Subject: Re: Emul: Linux Mathematica
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/24/1997 15:35:18
> 
> Greg Hudson writes:
> > > Has any one had any luck (or lack therof) getting the linux port of
> > > Mathematica 3.0 running under NetBSD 1.2?  (or 1.2.1 for that
> > > matter)
> > 
> > For whatever reason, under NetBSD 1.2, the Linux MathKernel binary is
> > treated as an SVR4 binary and dies very quickly with a SIGSYS.
> 
> I had this problem with many binaries. I fixed it by yanking out my
> SVr4 compat options. Linux emulation is now far more reliable. :)

You can try to run linux /bin/sh first and run linux binary from it.
I have both SVR4 and linux emulations in kernel and it worked for me
when origin of the binary wasn't guessed right.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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