Subject: Re: Binary Emulation on Amd64
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 02/21/2004 16:28:54
On Friday 20 February 2004 09:06 am, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:35:30PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > What is the mechanism for handling shared libraries in this case?  Is it
> > the same as Linux, namely 64-bit libs go in /lib64 and 32-bit ones in
> > /lib?  Does that carry through to /usr/lib and /usr/pkg/lib as well?
>
> NetBSD uses the 'netbsd32' emulation layer, meaning that the libraries
> are in /emul/netbsd32/lib and /emul/netbsd32/usr/lib.
>
> > > >  * 32-bit Linux binaries?
> > > >  * 64-bit Linux binaries?
> > >
> > > Not yet..
> >
> > Is that being worked on at all, or is it a "nice to have when someone
> > does it" sort of feature?
>
> I might do this sooner rather than later.. so stay tuned.
>
> - Frank

How about 32-bit Openbsd 3.4 binaries?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel