Subject: Re: SunOS 4 shared libraries from Solaris 7 cdrom
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/11/1999 16:00:40
> Making note of the various messages lately about SunOS 4 shared libraries,
> I took a look at my Solaris 7 cd with the theory in mind that NetBSD seems
> to emulate nearly everyone.  It appears to contain some of the needed
> libraries, especially in the SUNWbcp package.  There is even a ld.so and
> ld.so.1 loader in usr/lib.  However, it drops core with an unimplemented
> system call.  The ktrace is:

You do know that Solaris is SVR4/ELF, not BSD/a.out, right?  I would
expect that the ld.so* would want to use /emul/svr4 instead of
/emul/sunos.

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