NetBSD/share/man/man8/compat_netbsd32.8

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.Dd February 3, 2001
.Dt COMPAT_NETBSD32 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm compat_netbsd32
.Nd setup procedure for 32-bit compatibility on 64-bit platform
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
module allows
.Nx Ns Tn /sparc64
to run
.Nx Ns Tn /sparc
executables.
.Pp
To use
.Nm ,
one must either have
.Dv COMPAT_NETBSD32
in the kernel, or load the compat_netbsd32 and exec_netbsd32 kernel
modules.
.Pp
Static executables typically need no additional setup.
Dynamic binaries require the dynamic linker, plus shared libraries.  Most of
these files will need to be placed under
.Pa /emul/netbsd32 .
.Pp
The easiest method of installing support for these is via the
.Pa emulators/netbsd32_compat14
and
.Pa emulators/netbsd32_compat15
packages, provided in the
.Nx
packages collection.  These install 32-bit a.out and ELF compatibility
libraries, respectively.  The details of what is actually necessary for
correct operation are given below.  This obviously is handled by the
emulator packages.
.Pp
For a.out compatibility,
.Pa /usr/libexec/ld.so
from a 32-bit distribution is required to exist as
.Pa /emul/netbsd32/usr/libexec/ld.so .
For 32-bit ELF compatibility,
.Pa /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so
needs to be in
.Pa /emul/netbsd32/usr/libexec/ld.elf_so .
.Pp
The shared libraries for a.out binaries do not live under the
.Pa /emul/netbsd32
directory, but under the
.Pa /emul/aout
directory, where the a.out dynamic linker will find them.
.Sh BUGS
A list of things which fail to work in compatibility mode should
be here.
.Pp
IPC is not well supported.
.Pp
.Xr sysctl 3
is not well supported.