Subject: Re: a.out binaries in an ELF system
To: Matthew Haas <wedge@lightlink.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/26/2000 12:28:05
	Work is still underway for a fix to this problem - and should be
	present for the full 1.5 release.
	For now, if you use pkgsrc, just reinstall from src, and for the
	X there should be a more recent snapshot on the ftp site...


		David/absolute
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Matthew Haas wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
>  I've just finished installing the 20000607 snapshot of NetBSD in my
> SPARCbook 3GX. It was my general understanding that the big difference
> between 1.4.2 and these snapshots were the conversion over to the ELF
> binary format from a.out... but having played on several linux systems
> where both types of files co-exist peacefully, I didn't think I'd
> encounter any problems...
> 
>  Not having 20000607 X11R6 packages, I used 1.4.2's X11R6 packages... I've
> also downloaded the entire 1.4.2 SPARC package collection... upon trying
> to start X, (with startx) I get a terse message:
> 
> ld.so no such command   (or something to that effect)
> 
>  I get the same effect when trying to install the bash-2.04.tgz package...
> which seems to tell me that I am indeed having some sort of issue using
> both a.out and elf together... 
> 
>  Any suggestions? 
> 
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