[1795] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Updated /emul/linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Sep 24 13:44:27 1998
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 1998 13:43:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Nathan J. Williams"'s message of Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:54:41 EDT
I assume you still keep the libc-5 compatibility libs in there?
-derek
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> I replaced most of the libraries and ld.so stuff in
> /emul/linux with newer libraries and structure from a Red Hat 5.1
> system, after some testing. It runs all the 'important' Linux binaries
> I knew about, including Netscape, xess, tecplot, matlab, maple, and
> applix.
>
> The important addition is that NetBSD-Athena systems should
> now be able to run Linux programs that are linked against libc6/glibc
> (/mit/emacs/arch/i386_linux2/bin/emacs was a good test case).
>
> The old stuff is in /emul/linux-4.2, in case we need to revert
> (I wanted a different name than 'linux.old' to prevent confusion with
> the previous linux.old directory).
>
> - Nathan
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