HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jun 26 17:03:36 PDT 2004


In message: <200406261535.47434.michaelnottebrock at gmx.net>
            Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> writes:
: On Saturday 26 June 2004 12:59, Miguel Mendez wrote:
: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:36:25 +0300
: > Alex Keahan <alex at hightemplar.com> wrote:
: >
: > Hi,
: >
: > > Is Solaris/x86 supported by ibcs2 or svr4?   Solaris/x86 is being
: > > actively developed by Sun and is far from extinct.
: >
: > Solaris/x86 is a niche product.
: > [...]
: 
: That's all very subjective arguments. The question is, does the binary compat 
: _work_ for any recent Solaris/x86 stuff? I rather doubt it, but haven't 
: checked, Scott seems to suggest it doesn't.

I tried with 2.7 libc and binaries from solaris.  No joy.  Maybe I did
something wrong, but I was unsuccessful.  This was in the pre
5.0-RELEASE days.

Warner


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