On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:35:48PM -0700, Jeff_W wrote:
> Greetings Sparc fans,
> I'm attempting to run the Solaris/Sparc SETI@Home/BOINC client on
> my SS20.  I don't have a system running Solaris from which I could
> snag shared libraries but I do have a Solaris 8 install disk.
> Unfortunately, I'm unsure of which libraries I need or where on
> the CD they might be located.  Looking through some of the archived
> port-sparc posts I found a reference to an FTP server (run by Sun)
> from which one could snag at least some of the core shared libs,
> which I did:
> 
> #ls /emul/svr4/usr/lib
> ld.so.1          libmp.so.1       nss_compat.so.1  nss_nis.so.1     straddr.so
> libc.so.1        libmp.so.2       nss_dns.so.1     nss_nisplus.so.1 straddr.so.2
> libdl.so.1       libnsl.so.1      nss_files.so.1   nss_user.so.1
> libmp.so         libsocket.so.1   nss_ldap.so.1    nss_xfn.so.1
> 
> The BOINC binary is from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php ;
> I've got it in /emul/svr4/usr/bin but it doesn't run:
> 
> #/emul/svr4/usr/bin/boinc_4.19_sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> /emul/svr4/usr/bin/boinc_4.19_sparc-sun-solaris2.7: Exec format
> error. Binary file not executable.
> 
> (it's mode is 755 so it should be executable)
> 
> # file /emul/svr4/usr/bin/boinc_4.19_sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> /emul/svr4/usr/bin/boinc_4.19_sparc-sun-solaris2.7: ELF 32-bit MSB
> executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared
> libs), not stripped
> 
> Does this look like I just need more libraries or something more?
> The SETI site says the binary is for  "Solaris versions 7, 8, 9,
> or 10 ; any SPARC processor".

do you have COMPAT_SVR4 in your kernel?

-Dan

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