5400 binary and 3100 binary, are they compatible both ways?
Farhad Shakeri
farhad at CS.Stanford.EDU
Sat Jul 21 02:29:04 AEST 1990
I do not know if this has been talked about but I missed it.
When I installed our 3100s I just NFS mounted the /usr form
out 5400 to save time and space. All of the binaries on
the 5400 were fine and we never had any problem with them. but
the moment I and other users tried to use these binaries:
X11R4 binaries, gnuemacs, tcsh, MH... they all acted
strange, from core dump, seg. faults to hangings really
annoying. Then I just recompiled everything on my 3100 and
all went back to normal. We are running the same OS 3.1c
on our 5400s and 3100. I complained to DEC and they are
telling me that 5400 binaries and 3100s are compatible;
a 5400 was made to act as a server for 3100s.
One more thing is that after I played around with the 5400
binaries on 3100, I can rate something like, they are
compatible %80 and %20 not compatible.
Also has anyone tried to make a 3100 kernel in /sys of
a 5400?
Or has anyone ever seen a problem like this? What am I
doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.
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/ Farhad Shakeri E-Mail: /
/ Stanford University farhad at Tehran.Stanford.EDU /
/ Computer Science Dept. /
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