Re: is it possible to run i386 binary on ia64?

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2002 09:53:36 -0400 (EDT), Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> said:

  Walter> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Walter Tautz wrote:

  >> I have some binaries I don't have the source for, or more
  >> precisely I need them to help bootstrap the process of
  >> conversion.

  Walter> apparently compiling statically on ia32 seems to work along
  Walter> with the the config option in the kernel:

  Walter> CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT=y

  Walter> Alas it does not allow linking to 32 bit compiled libraries.

Dynamically linked x86 binaries work fine too.  You just need the x86
shared libraries and the x86 runtime loader in /lib/ld-linux.so.2.

I think Bdale put together a package called "ia32-libs", just for this
purpose.

	--david


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