On 18/04/2013, at 13:09, Jeremy Chadwick <j...@koitsu.org> wrote: >> I presume it has rotted and was removed, does anyone know when? > > Good lord, the number of possibilities here are almost endless. You > can't be serious...
Perfectly! I don't think this is any worse than trying to run FreeBSD 1.0 binaries on -current :) > My first inclination is to ask you if that FreeBSD system is amd64 or > i386. Your Linux a.out binaries are i386. > > If the FreeBSD system is amd64: I don't think this is going to work; > I see nothing in /sys/amd64/conf/* that indicates a.out is supported. > Sure, 32-bit binaries might be (with COMPAT_FREEBSD32), but that's > architecture, not format. Yeah, I wondered if that was the case. It is an amd64 system. > If the FreeBSD system is i386: /sys/i386/conf/NOTES mentions a kernel > option called COMPAT_AOUT, which **is not** enabled in GENERIC. And of > course don't forget COMPAT_LINUX. > > Also worth noting is the BUGS section of a.out(5). It's looking like running it inside a FreeBSD 4 VM is the easier solution :) Thankfully it doesn't get much use these days now the person who needs it can run GDL. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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