Subject: Re: Linux compatibility and ELF.
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/1999 20:47:18
In article <Pine.VUL.3.93.990818222819.23346B-100000@Zeke.Update.UU.SE>,
Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE> wrote:
>I have recently moved my system over to ELF. Everything is working just
>fine.
>
>However, I cannot build any Linux compatibility package in pkgsrc. The
>system totally hangs on me when installing those.
>I can guess it has to do with the fact that Linux also is ELF, so
>something gets confused here, but does anyone know for sure, or even
>better, has it working? If so, what am I missing?
>
>Hmmm, while I'm at it. One package is not working when switching to ELF.
>xforms is a binary only package, and thus, isn't very usable right now.
>

No, that is not it. I've been looking at the problem on the sparc...

christos