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From: pirzyk@vinny.cecer.army.mil (Jim Pirzyk)
Subject: Re: GRASS on SUN SPARC Classic
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Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 14:25:50 GMT
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In <9303120335.AA15000@cocklebur.ecn.purdue.edu> mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
We have tried to run grass under Solaris 2.0 and it *DOES NOT WORK* even though
sun says that it will. From what I have herd Sun say is that it *MIGHT* work,
if it does not do these:
* Pretend that there is a long list of stuff which I cannot remember *
*supposedly* binaries will run under SunOS 5 if they
were compiled with dynamic linking under 4.1.x.
from comp.sys.sun.admin FAQ:
47) Will SunOS 4.1.x binaries run under SunOS 5.x?
Yes they will, with some restrictions. The most significant is
that the binary in question must have been "dynamically linked."
Otherwise, you will get the messageBad system call (core dumped)
immediately when starting the 4.1.x binary on SunOS5.
Also, bear in mind that there is a performance overhead for
this "binary emulation"; each system call happens twice,
once to trap into the emulation mode and again to get from
there into the UNIX kernel.
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[Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------
TAC & GrassNet System Administrator, US Army Corps of Engineers
Construction Engineering Research Labratories, Champaign IL USA