SVR3.2 development on SVR4

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1991Jan31.043548.25224 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to run SVR4 binaries on SVR3.2?

Nope.  the 3.2 kernel does not understand ELF (the object file format for SVR4).

>I'd like to get the Dell SVR4 package to develop binaries for ISC
>2.0.2.  Can libraries from SVR3.2 be copied over to SVR4 and used
>when linking?

Since 3.2 binaries will work correctly on SVR4, I would copy the ISC tools
over to your SVR4 system in a chrooted enviroment and do the compiles there.
I successfully used this mechanism to develop Xenix software under ISC.


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