Subject: Re: Linux ELF emulation questions
To: Allan Strand <astrand@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/14/1997 09:38:22
> I've been trying to get linux emulation running and have run into
> problems with ELF format binaries. Some particulars of my system are:
> The emulation options in the conf file (note COMPAT_SVR4 commented out):
> #options COMPAT_SVR4 # binary compatibility with SVR4
> #options COMPAT_IBCS2 # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC
> options COMPAT_LINUX # binary compatibility with Linux
> options EXEC_ELF32 # needed to run linux 32bit ELFs ???
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
>
> a.out binaries seem to work (for example, an old version of 'xv')
> So far, all of the ELF binaries give the
>
> Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
>
> error.
>
(1) Do you have a recently compiled version of magic(1)?
(2) Are your linux binaries and libraries up-to-date?
(3) Is all of your ksrc up-to-date?
-John