The following reply was made to PR kern/32161; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
Subject: Re: kern/32161: m68k a.out emulation broken
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:06:31 +0100

 On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:00:01PM +0000, Hauke Fath wrote:
 > It looks like a.out compatibility is broken in -current.
 > 
 > I was trying to set up a chrooted netbsd-1-5 installation on mac68k with a
 > 3.99.1[01] kernel, partly to build the distribution and partly to reproduce
 > PR 26896. But when I chrooted to the netbsd-1-5 partition, I saw - nothing.
 > The command path behaved as if empty, ls(1) did not show anything. Same if
 > I leave the chroot and just call a.out binaries:
 > 
 > [hauke@q700] ~ # sh bin/setup_build_chroot.sh
 > Mounting build disk...
 > Mounting 1.5 sources readonly...
 > Union-mounting sources below usr/src...
 > Union-mounting var/obj/netbsd-15 on top of usr/src...
 
 Does it work better without the union mount?