Running i386 scripts in 5.3

[Tim Traver]

Thanks David,

I will be looking forward to 5.4-RELEASE to try that out...

In the mean time, I think I have to go ahead and build the box with i386...

Tim.


David O'Brien wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:01:15AM -0800, Tim Traver wrote:
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>>ok, I have read a bunch of the posts on the subject, and it seems like a 
>>fairly complicated subject.
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>>However, I didn't realize that there are several binaries that I need to 
>>run that are i386 binaries, and there is no way for me to re-compile them.
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>>I've tried the /usr/src/tools/lib32/build32.sh script, and although it 
>>appeared to work, there were many wanrings. When trying to run my 
>>binaries, it get core dumps.
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>>Is there a better way to do this ? or should I just recompile the kernel 
>>using i386 to be sure ?
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>You should upgrade to a 5.4 prerelease snapshot (or just wait for
>5.4-RELEASE).  5.4 will be released sometime in April.  If you need
>something now, CVSup to RELENG_5 and build your system (after this
>weekend).
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>>And is there a roadmap to get a nice clean method for running i386 
>>binaries ? what about i386 binaries from 4.x ?
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>There will a clean way to run i386 4.x binaries be for 5.4-RELEASE.
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