older binaries on latest snapshot

[Eric McWhorter]

A coworker wants to try NetBSD/i386 to see if XFree86 works better
than what he's using under NT. I tried booting 1.4.2 but the GENERIC
kernel complained about his "aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255
SCBs". His machine is pretty new, so I thought maybe the latest
snapshot would support his host adapter. The snapshot installed fine,
but when I move binaries from my 1.4.2 box he can't run them. Most of
these binaries were originally compiled under 1.3.2 and seem to work
fine on 1.4.2.

When he tries to run my binaries he gets:

No ld.so

This is with the May 28, 2000 snapshot. Any ideas?

Thanks!

--
Eric McWhorter
Xerox Special Information Systems
emcwh...@xsis.xerox.com

[David Brownlee]

NetBSD/i386 is transitioning from a.out to ELF between 1.4 and
1.5. Sometime before the official release we should have a way
to transparently run a.out binaries.

When I upgraded my box I was lucky enough to be able to rebuild
everything I needed from pkgsrc, and use an ELF XFree86 snapshot

Is there anything you need thats not in pkgsrc? :)

David/absolute
-- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --

[John Hawkinson]

| to transparently run a.out binaries.
|
| When I upgraded my box I was lucky enough to be able to rebuild
| everything I needed from pkgsrc, and use an ELF XFree86 snapshot

It should be sufficient to copy the contents of /usr/{lib,libexec/ld*}
from your 1.4.2 box to /emul/aout/usr/{lib,libexec/ld*} on the 1.5 system.

--jhawk

[David Burgess]

Isn't there a document on www.netbsd.org that describes exactly what
pieces need to go where?

Like maybe

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/elf.html#updating-from-a.out