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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone try BMRT Linux binaries on NetBSD-current?
Date: 19 Aug 1995 16:50:34 +0200
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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williams@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes:
>I am currently running Linux at home instead of NetBSD solely because I
>want to run Larry Gritz's BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools), a
>shareware, Renderman compliant rendering package. Larry only
>distributes binaries and the only Unix-on-PC-clone binaries available
>are for Linux. I would very much like to run NetBSD-current instead of
>Linux, but before I switch, I'd like to be sure that BMRT will run
>under the NetBSD Linux compatibility mode. So, has anyone tried this?
BMRT works fine for me, I just tried it out on NetBSD-current (16 Aug). For
setting up a Linux emulation environment on NetBSD-current, see the
compat_linux(8) manual page, in this case an important thing to remember
is that you have to copy some shared libs (libc, libm, libgr, libX11).
- Frank
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Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
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