Running i386 binaries on amd64

[Jim Prettyman]

On 5/12/06, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have just installed FreeBSD-6.1-R on an athlon64 box, which is my
> > first ever experience with amd. I was under the impression that the
> > amd64 machines could run binaries built for the i386, but I'm not
> > having much luck with the system as it is now.
>
> What are the symptoms you see?

My initial test was with bash from my i386 box. It failed to run with
'Shared object "linintl.so.6" not found'. That lib exists in
/usr/local/lib, but is presumably the wrong type for the i386 binary
to use.

> > Am I trying to do something that can't be done? Or is there some magic
> > that I need to apply first?
>
> You need 'COMPAT_IA32' compiled into the kernel, but this should
> be part of the default GENERIC kernel.

Indeed, that is set in GENERIC, and I'm using the default kernel.