Nicolas Joly wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:10:16PM -0700, Alex wrote:
>   
>> I upgraded to NetBSD-current yesterday (2006-06-27) and compiled my 
>> kernel with COMPAT_LINUX32 support:
>>
>> options         COMPAT_NETBSD32
>> options         COMPAT_LINUX
>> options         COMPAT_LINUX32  # req. COMPAT_LINUX and COMPAT_NETBSD32
>> options         EXEC_ELF32
>>
>> I was able to install SuSE 10.0 compatibility from 
>> /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/ by modifying the Makefiles to use i386 instead of 
>> the normal x86_64. If I chroot into /emul/linux, then the executables 
>> run fine. Otherwise, I receive "exec format errors".
>>
>> % /emul/linux/bin/ls
>> zsh: exec format error: /emul/linux/bin/ls
>>
>> % sudo chroot /emul/linux /bin/sh
>> sh-3.00# /bin/ls
>> bin  dev  etc  lib  proc  root    sbin  usr  var
>>
>> Using chroot would be fine except for I need to access files outside of 
>> /emul/linux. Are there any ways to solve this?
>>     
>
> Linux 32bits files (for COMPAT_LINUX32) need to be installed in
> `/emul/linux32'; `/emul/linux' subtree is for 64bits Linux compat
> files (COMPAT_LINUX).
>
>   
That did the trick. Thank you very much for the prompt reply.

-Alex