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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!agate!theos.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: COMPAT_FREEBSD Date: 11 Aug 1996 05:37:08 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit, Inc. Lines: 290 Message-ID: <DERAADT.96Aug10233708@zeus.theos.com> References: <4ujbu5$96j@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 11 Aug 1996 01:10:29 GMT In article <4ujbu5$96j@darkstar.ucsc.edu> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes: There is no COMPAT_FREEBSD man page so what are the issues involved in running freebsd binaries under netbsd? A compat_freebsd(8) man page converted from the compat_linux(8) man page is in the OpenBSD tree. Here it is, nroff -mandoc it for your pleasure. This should help you get going immediately. This page is available to any OpenBSD anoncvs user right now (there's a latency of about 4 hours before things show up on at least one anoncvs server). The same thing described here works on NetBSD too. .\" $OpenBSD: compat_freebsd.8,v 1.1 1996/08/09 16:43:27 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: compat_linux.8,v 1.1 1995/03/05 23:30:36 fvdl Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software .\" must display the following acknowledgement: .\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project .\" by Frank van der Linden .\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products .\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd June 4, 1995 .Dt COMPAT_FREEBSD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm COMPAT_FREEBSD .Nd setup procedure for running FreeBSD binaries .Sh DESCRIPTION OpenBSD supports running FreeBSD binaries. Most binaries should work, except programs that use FreeBSD-specific features. These include i386-specific calls, such as syscons utilities, and audio devices. The FreeBSD compatibility feature is active for kernels compiled with the .Nm COMPAT_FREEBSD option enabled. A lot of programs are dynamically linked. This means, that you will also need the FreeBSD shared libraries that the program depends on, and the runtime linker. Also, you will need to create a "shadow root" directory for FreeBSD binaries on your OpenBSD system. This directory is named /emul/freebsd. Any file operations done by FreeBSD programs run under OpenBSD will look in this directory first. So, if a FreeBSD program opens, for example, /etc/passwd, OpenBSD will first try to open /emul/freebsd/etc/passwd, and if that does not exist open the 'real' /etc/passwd file. It is recommended that you install FreeBSD packages that include configuration files, etc under /emul/freebsd, to avoid naming conflicts with possible OpenBSD counterparts. Shared libraries should also be installed in the shadow tree. .Pp Generally, you will need to look for the shared libraries that FreeBSD binaries depend on only the first few times that you install a FreeBSD program on your OpenBSD system. After a while, you will have a sufficient set of FreeBSD shared libraries on your system to be able to run newly imported FreeBSD binaries without any extra work. .Ss Setting up shared libraries How to get to know which shared libraries FreeBSD binaries need, and where to get them? Basically, there are 2 possibilities (when following these instructions: you will need to be root on your OpenBSD system to do the necessary installation steps). .Bl -tag -width 123 -compact .It 1. You have access to a FreeBSD system. In this case you can temporarily install the binary there, see what shared libraries it needs, and copy them to your OpenBSD system. Example: you have just ftp-ed the FreeBSD binary of SimCity. Put it on the FreeBSD system you have access to, and check which shared libraries it needs by running `ldd sim': .Pp .Bl -tag -width 123 -compact -offset indent .It me@freebsd% ldd /usr/local/lib/SimCity/res/sim .nf /usr/local/lib/SimCity/res/sim: -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0 (0x100c1000) -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 (0x100c9000) -lc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 (0x10144000) -lm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 (0x101a7000) -lgcc.261 => /usr/lib/libgcc.so.261.0 (0x101bf000) .fi .El .Pp You would need go get all the files from the last column, and put them under /emul/freebsd. This means you eventually have these files on your OpenBSD system: .Pp .nf /emul/freebsd/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0 /emul/freebsd/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 /emul/freebsd/usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 /emul/freebsd/usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 /emul/freebsd/usr/lib/libgcc.so.261.0 .fi .Pp Note that if you already have a FreeBSD shared library with a matching major revision number to the first column of the 'ldd' output, you won't need to copy the file named in the last column to your system, the one you already have should work. It is advisable to copy the shared library anyway if it is a newer version, though. You can remove the old one. So, if you have these libraries on your system: .Pp .nf /emul/freebsd/usr/lib/libc.so.2.0 .fi .Pp and you find that the ldd output for a new binary you want to install is: .nf .Pp -lc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 (0x10144000) .fi .Pp you won't need to worry about copying /usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 too, because the program should work fine with the slightly older version. You can decide to replace the libc.so anyway, and that should leave you with: .Pp .nf /emul/freebsd/usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 .fi .Pp Finally, you must make sure that you have the FreeBSD runtime linker and its config files on your system. You should copy these files from the FreeBSD system to their appropriate place on your OpenBSD system (in the /emul/freebsd tree): .Pp .nf usr/libexec/ld.so var/run/ld.so.hints .fi .Pp .It 2. You don't have access to a FreeBSD system. In that case, you should get the extra files you need from various ftp sites. Information on where to look for the various files is appended below. For now, let's assume you know where to get the files. .Pp Retrieve the following files (from _one_ ftp site to avoid any version mismatches), and install them under /emul/freebsd (i.e. foo/bar is installed as /emul/freebsd/foo/bar): .Pp .nf sbin/ldconfig usr/bin/ldd usr/lib/libc.so.x.y.z usr/libexec/ld.so .fi .Pp ldconfig and ldd don't necessarily need to be under /emul/freebsd, you can install them elsewhere in the system too. Just make sure they don't conflict with their OpenBSD counterparts. A good idea would be to install them in /usr/local/bin as ldconfig-freebsd and ldd-freebsd. .Pp Run the FreeBSD ldconfig program with directory arguments in which the FreeBSD runtime linker should look for shared libs. /usr/lib are standard, you could run like the following: .Pp .Bl -tag -width 123 -compact -offset indent .It me@openbsd% mkdir -p /emul/freebsd/var/run .It me@openbsd% touch /emul/freebsd/var/run/ld.so.hints .It me@openbsd% ldconfig-freebsd /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib .El .Pp Note that argument directories of ldconfig are mapped to /emul/freebsd/XXXX by OpenBSD's compat code, and should exist as such on your system. Make sure /emul/freebsd/var/run/ld.so.hints is exist when you run FreeBSD's ldconfig, if not, you may lose OpenBSD's /var/run/ld.so.hints. FreeBSD ldconfig should be statically linked, so it doesn't need any shared libraries by itself. It will create the file /emul/freebsd/var/run/ld.so.hints. You should rerun the FreeBSD version of the ldconfig program each time you add a new shared library. .Pp You should now be set up for FreeBSD binaries which only need a shared libc. You can test this by running the FreeBSD ldd on itself. Suppose that you have it installed as ldd-freebsd, it should produce something like: .Pp .Bl -tag -width 123 -compact -offset indent .It me@openbsd% ldd-freebsd `which ldd-freebsd` .nf /usr/local/bin/ldd-freebsd: -lc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.so.2.1 (0x1001a000) .fi .El .Pp This being done, you are ready to install new FreeBSD binaries. Whenever you install a new FreeBSD program, you should check if it needs shared libraries, and if so, whether you have them installed in the /emul/freebsd tree. To do this, you run the FreeBSD version ldd on the new program, and watch its output. ldd (see also the manual page for ldd(1)) will print a list of shared libraries that the program depends on, in the form -l<majorname> => <fullname>. .Pp If it prints "not found" in stead of <fullname> it means that you need an extra library. Which library this is, is shown in <majorname>, which will be of the form XXXX.<N> You will need to find a libXXXX.so.<N>.<mm> on a FreeBSD ftp site, and install it on your system. The XXXX (name) and <N> (major revision number) should match; the minor number(s) <mm> are less important, though it is advised to take the most recent version. .El .Ss Finding the necessary files. .Nm Note: the information below is valid as of the time this document was written (Jun, 1995), but certain details such as names of ftp sites, directories and distribution names may have changed by the time you read this. .Pp FreeBSD distribution is available on a lot of ftp sites. Sometimes the files are unpacked, and you can get the individual files you need, but mostly they are stored in distribution sets, usually consisting of subdirectories with gzipped tar files in them. The primary ftp sites for the distributions are: .Pp .nf ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD .fi .Pp Mirror sites are described on: .Pp .nf ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/MIRROR.SITES .fi .Pp This distribution consists of a number of tar-ed and gzipped files, Normally, they're controlled by an install program, but you can retrieve files "by hand" too. The way to look something up is to retrieve all the files in the distribution, and ``tar ztvf'' through them for the file you need. Here is an example of a list of files that you might need. .Pp .Bd -unfilled -offset indent Needed Files ld.so 2.0-RELEASE/bindist/bindist.?? ldconfig 2.0-RELEASE/bindist/bindist.?? ldd 2.0-RELEASE/bindist/bindist.?? libc.so.2 2.0-RELEASE/bindist/bindist.?? libX11.so.6.0 2.0-RELEASE/XFree86-3.1/XFree86-3.1-bin.tar.gz libX11.so.6.0 XFree86-3.1.1/X311bin.tgz libXt.so.6.0 2.0-RELEASE/XFree86-3.1/XFree86-3.1-bin.tar.gz libXt.so.6.0 XFree86-3.1.1/X311bin.tgz .\" libX11.so.3 oldlibs .\" libXt.so.3 oldlibs .Ed .Pp The Files called ``bindist.??'' are tar-ed, gzipped and split, so you can extract contents by ``cat bindist.?? | tar zpxf -''. .Pp Extract the files from these gzipped tarfiles in your /emul/freebsd directory (possibly omitting or afterwards removing files you don't need), and you are done. .Sh BUGS The information about FreeBSD distributions may become outdated. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com