Subject: RE: iBCS2 emulation: how should it be set up?
To: Kevin Cousins <kevinc@obelix.premium.com.au>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.futureone.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/24/1997 07:56:06
I've had a number of problems with Solaris x86 compat and FreeBSD
compatability..  I had access to a solaris machine for awhile, and grabbed the
entire lib dir off it and installed it..  Normal bins ran just fine, however,
Xwindows programs (for solaris) would not, because they expect a local socket
while NetBSD XFree86 runs off a unix domain..  I never did figure out a way
around this one..  The FreeBSD problem was similar, where it looked for some
obscure library reference.. I think I could have overcome the FreeBSD problem
by installing the xlibs for FreeBSD into the emul dir.. but the solaris problem
was totally beyond me.

I found however.. ldconfig can be a total pain to use on an emul system..  it
helped when I copied his entire /etc dir and chrooted to /emul/solaris (or
whatever it was called) and ran ldconfig..  Solaris is annoying because
EVERYTHING is dynamically linked.. even crap like ld.so and ldconfig..

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