In message <Pine.SOL.4.44.0209111849290.27600-100000@draco.cus.cam.ac.uk> you wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Stefan Wuerthner wrote:
> 
> > how can I run my old a.out binaries under NetBSD 1.6/Netwinder?
> >
> > I tried to compile a new kernel with the option COMPAT_AOUT, but the compile
> > run failed with the following error:
> 
> COMPAT_AOUT is an evil hack that causes a.out binaries to have a warped
> view of the filesystem.  You probably just want EXEC_AOUT (which should
> be in all netwinder kernels anyway -- what happens when you try to run
> your a.out binaries?).

a.out binaries don't find their shared libraries, e.g. 

netwinder-rm# ncftp2
/usr/libexec/ld.so: ncftp2: libposix.so.0.1: No such file or directory

The NetBSD ELF FAQ recommends to configure a kernel with EXEC_ELF, EXEC_AOUT
and COMPAT_AOUT defined.

> 
> If you really want COMPAT_AOUT, I think files.arm needs to have the
> following line added:
> 
> include "compat/aout/files.aout"
> 

Stefan

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