Re: svr4_net* not being registered?

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On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:04:16PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:55:34PM +0000, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:46:18AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > On Apr 23,  3:26pm, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost 
> > > (bch%methodlogic.net@localhost) wrote:
> > > -- Subject: Re: svr4_net* not being registered?
> > > 
> > > | > No, this cannot work right now. The reason you are getting the warning
> > > | > is because someone copied just the svr4_net line to the device majors
> > > | > file, but all the rest MI stuff is missing from amd64 to make this 
> > > work.
> > > | > fgrep -ir svr4 src/sys/arch/i386/conf and then do the same for amd64.
> > > | > What are you trying to run? Solaris binaries?
> > > | 
> > > | SCO.
> 
> SCO what, OpenServer?  You won't be able to run those under SVR4
> emulation, you'd need to (ow!) whack IBCS2 emulation to work on amd64,
> likely involving a lot of compat32 hackery too.
> 
> > Note. The native SCO compiler generates COFF binaries; I've got gcc 2.95
> > installed from their "skunkworks" disk, which generates ELF. I'm working
> > w/ both, but only sent an ELF example.
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like OpenServer.  Ugh.

Hi Thor.

Ya, OpenServer.

I've been playing w/ both IBCS2 and SVR4 (on amd64), but with no
success. Seems like i386 is quickest path out?


> Thor

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