In article <23503.1012958040@eterna.com.au>
mrg@eterna.com.au wrote:

>    - - Comment out `options COMPAT_SUNOS'. This hasn't been reported to work
>        for a long time, so it's not very useful in GENERIC.
> 
> do you mean it has been reported to not work, or there have been no
> reports of it being broken?  the latter would suggest removing it is
> a bad idea and the former would suggest it needs fixing..

COMPAT_SUNOS is working on my news68k (which has switched to ELF):

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libero-% uname -a
NetBSD libero 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (LIBERO) #834: Sat Feb  2 09:13:05 JST 2002 \
    tsutsui@libero:/usr/src/sys/arch/news68k/compile/LIBERO news68k
libero-% file /emul/sunos/usr/bin/uname
/emul/sunos/usr/bin/uname: mc68020 demand paged dynamically linked executable
libero-% /emul/sunos/usr/bin/uname -a
NetBSD libero 1.5ZA 1 news68k
libero-% /emul/sunos/usr/bin/ldd /emul/sunos/usr/bin/ldd
        -lc.0 => /usr/lib/libc.so.0.15
libero-% 
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Some (or many?) binaries (cc, vi etc.) do not work, though.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp