Frank van der Linden wrote:
> 
> Quoting John Maier,
> 
> > I downloaded the development library from www.willows.com.  They have   
> > SCO, solaris, DEC, Linux and sunos support.  The Linux requires ELF,   
> > which I know is not supported, but what about SCO ELF binaries?  I've   
> > never seen any reference to this in the NetBSD listserves.
> 
> You mean they don't support Linux ELF? Because NetBSD sure does support
> running Linux ELF binaries, and has for a while now. If SCO uses ELF too
> now (do they?) then it should be a small patch to make that work. If those
> binaries would be different from SVR4 that is, otherwise no changes at
> all would have to be made.. Although SVR4 != SVR4 in some cases, 
> unfortunately.
> 
> - Frank
> 
>From a review I read on SCO OpenServer 5.0 the ELF support is specific to
SCO. The reviewer tried to run other ELF binaries and did not get the
expected results...

So I guess SCO ELF compat will have to have its own COMPAT mode for NetBSD
- ouch, I can see the code trying between Linux,SVR4,SCO_ELF 8-)

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