Old 32-bit binary stopped working after upgrade to 10.1/amd64

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:13:02PM -0500, MT wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> One of the users here is still actively using Applixware office suit. 
> The applications worked alright under FreBSD-8.x/i386:
> 
>     % file /opt/applix/applix
>     /opt/applix/applix: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
>     1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> 
> Unfortunately, applix would not start under FreeBSD-10.1/amd64: Bad 
> system call. The tail of kdump looks thus:
> 
>       ......
>       14383 applix   CALL sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK,0x28071e20,0xffffc788)
>       14383 applix   RET   sigprocmask 0
>       14383 applix   CALL sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,0x28071e34,0)
>       14383 applix   RET   sigprocmask 0
>       14383 applix   CALL sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK,0x28071e20,0xffffc788)
>       14383 applix   RET   sigprocmask 0
>       14383 applix   CALL sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,0x28071e34,0)
>       14383 applix   RET   sigprocmask 0
>       14383 applix   CALL  compat.sigprocmask
>       14383 applix   RET   compat.sigprocmask -1 errno 78 Function not
>     implemented
>       14383 applix   PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL code=SI_KERNEL
> 
> I copied the 32-bit libraries from the old install -- they are found, 
> according to ldd.
> 
>     % ldd /opt/applix/applix
>     /opt/bin/applix:
>              libX11.so.6 => /opt/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0x2807b000)
>              libm.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.4 (0x281af000)
>              libc.so.3 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.3 (0x281c5000)
>              libxcb.so.2 => /opt/lib32/libxcb.so.2 (0x28247000)
>              libXau.so.6 => /opt/lib/../lib32/libXau.so.6 (0x2825e000)
>              libXdmcp.so.6 => /opt/lib/../lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x28261000)
>              libpthread-stubs.so.0 =>
>     /opt/lib/../lib32/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x28267000)
>              librpcsvc.so.5 => /usr/lib32/librpcsvc.so.5 (0x28269000)
>              libc.so.7 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.7 (0x28271000)
> 
> Yes, the usage of libm.so.4 instead of 2 looks funny, but that's how it 
> always was -- the old (8.x) install does not have libm.so.2 at all. 
> Besides, it dies at the very start -- would not even process the 
> `-version' or `-help' options....
> 
> The new kernel includes GENERIC -- without disabling any of the 
> COMPAT-options.
> 
> What else am I missing? Thank you! Yours,

I think you need COMPAT_43 option.  It is for compatibility with
pre-FreeBSD 4 syscalls, not for FreeBSD 4.3.