Subject: Re: older binaries on latest snapshot
To: Eric McWhorter <emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/20/2000 19:00:47
NetBSD/i386 is transitioning from a.out to ELF between 1.4 and
1.5. Sometime before the official release we should have a way
to transparently run a.out binaries.
When I upgraded my box I was lucky enough to be able to rebuild
everything I needed from pkgsrc, and use an ELF XFree86 snapshot
Is there anything you need thats not in pkgsrc? :)
David/absolute
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Eric McWhorter wrote:
> A coworker wants to try NetBSD/i386 to see if XFree86 works better
> than what he's using under NT. I tried booting 1.4.2 but the GENERIC
> kernel complained about his "aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255
> SCBs". His machine is pretty new, so I thought maybe the latest
> snapshot would support his host adapter. The snapshot installed fine,
> but when I move binaries from my 1.4.2 box he can't run them. Most of
> these binaries were originally compiled under 1.3.2 and seem to work
> fine on 1.4.2.
>
> When he tries to run my binaries he gets:
>
> No ld.so
>
> This is with the May 28, 2000 snapshot. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Eric McWhorter
> Xerox Special Information Systems
> emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com
>