Subject: Re: SVR4 emulation
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/26/1999 17:47:34
In article <199902260611.DAA06801@phoenix.del.ufrj.br> pappires@phoenix.del.ufrj.br (Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires) writes:
>Hello to all.
>
>I am having problems to get SVR4 (Solaris, actually) to work OK
>under NetBSD/sparc.  All programs that do any kind of access to
>IP networking fail.  I tried Netscape, and Solaris 2.5.1 native
>telnet, ftp, ping and nslookup (thus using TCP, ICMP and UDP),
>and none of them did work.
>
>I'm currently running -current as of the first week of February
>on this machine, and using dynamic libraries from the Solaris
>2.5.1 CD.  Some other programs that won't do networking run fine
>(sh, for example), and I followed the instructions shown in
>compat_svr4(8) strictly.
>
>I miss a good web browser on this machine, and that's why I'd
>like to run Netscape for Solaris on it.  Is it possible that
>those programs above listed use any of the (not-yet-)supported
>SVR4 features.  Does anybody have a clue that can help get it
>running?
>
>[I thought of sending this to port-sparc but, beside my not
>being in that list, it's possible that somebody has a good
>SVR4 emulation for another architecture, in a way that would
>be useful for Sparc too.]
>
ktrace the binary and send me the output.

christos