re: port-sparc64/38949 (under emul_netbsd32 on sparc64 some applications die with segfault)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc64/38949; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Cc: port-sparc64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
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    raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost
Subject: re: port-sparc64/38949 (under emul_netbsd32 on sparc64 some 
applications die with segfault)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:26:18 +1000

    
    | 
    |    On May 19,  7:05am, mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) wrote:
    |    -- Subject: re: port-sparc64/38949 (under emul_netbsd32 on sparc64 
some appli
    |    
    |    | hmm, what happens if you don't have /emul/netbsd32?  ie, just copy
    |    | those /bin/ksh or /bin/sh files somewhere and run them as is.
    |    | 
    |    | /emul/netbsd32 is probably going to be going away as being used.
    |    | i haven't really thought deeply about this, but, i don't want to
    |    | keep two methods of 32 bit support around and the new one is much
    |    | better, so it's likely this will disappear.
    |    | 
    |    
    |    Static binaries are not supported then. Not that I will miss them 
but...
    |    Linux provides both.
    | 
    | how does /emul/netbsd32 affect static binaries?
    
    The /emul/netbsd32 userland portion of netbsd32 does not matter but the
    kernel part matters for both. I think that the userland portion of
    /emul/netbsd32 should be just handled by symlinks to the compat directories.
 
 how does it matter?  the new work i've done for 5.0 for sparc64/amd64
 makes it not required at all, AFAIK.  i do not have a /emul/netbsd32
 on any of my machines anymore, and everything works for me on both
 amd64 and sparc64.
 
 "options COMPAT_NEBBSD32" itself is entirely necessary, but afaict,
 it doesn't need to ever look in /emul/netbsd32 anymore.
 
 
 .mrg.