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From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make NetBSD-1.2 i386 execute ELF binaries
Date: 28 Jan 1997 16:56:02 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Bill&Virginia Hodges (hodges@oz.net) wrote:
> Is there any way to get NetBSD-1.2 i386 to load
> ELF format binaries from Solaris x86 and Linux?

Yes. Put COMPAT_LINUX or COMPAT_SVR4 in your kernel config file (they are
mutually exclusives).
See compat_linux(8) for details (no compat_svr4(8), sorry ! But it is similar
to compat_linux).

-- 
Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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