Subject: Re: re netscape
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/1997 11:35:55
You don't have COMPAT_NOMID, so you can't run BSDI code.

.pm

Patrick Welche writes:
> Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > 
> > In article <E0woweo-0001J0-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patric
k Welche) writes:
> > >The end of the ktrace of the bsd2 version of netscape 4.01b6 as requested 
is:
> > >
> > >   691 netscape CALL  compat_43_ogetdtablesize
> > >   691 netscape PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL
> > 
> > so you don't have COMPAT_43 in the kernel?
> > 
> > christos
> > 
> 
> Excerpt from kernel config file:
> 
> #options        COMPAT_NOMID    # compatibility with 386BSD, BSDI, NetBSD 0.8
,
> #options        COMPAT_09       # NetBSD 0.9,
> #options        COMPAT_10       # NetBSD 1.0,
> #options        COMPAT_11       # NetBSD 1.1,
> #options        COMPAT_12       # NetBSD 1.2,
> options         COMPAT_43       # and 4.3BSD
> #options        TCP_COMPAT_42   # TCP bug compatibility with 4.2BSD
> 
> #options        COMPAT_SVR4     # binary compatibility with SVR4
> #options        COMPAT_IBCS2    # binary compatibility with SCO and
> ISC
> #options        COMPAT_LINUX    # binary compatibility with Linux
> #options        COMPAT_FREEBSD  # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
> 
> options         COMPAT_NOMID
> 
> #options        EXEC_ELF32      # 32-bit ELF executables (SVR4, Linux)
> 
> 
> I'll recompile just in case...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  Patrick