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Subject: -55- Why don't COFF executables run on IRIX 6.1 or 6.2?
Date: 15 Jun 1996 00:00:01 EST
IRIX 6.1 has kernel support for COFF executables, but does not have at
least some of the shared libraries. If you copy the needed shared
libraries from an IRIX 6.0.1 (or perhaps 5.3) system to your IRIX 6.1
system your COFF executable should work.
IRIX 6.2 does not have kernel support for COFF, so you will have to
recompile your COFF binaries. The IRIX 6.2 installation procedure will
warn you about COFF binaries, although only on local disks; be sure to
check machines yourself which provide binaries to IRIX 6.2 machines
via NFS. You can find COFF binaries yourself with something like
'find / -print | xargs file | grep COFF', or use the script
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/support/Pipeline/coffcheck.tar.Z. See also "The End
of COFF Support" in the Jan/Feb 1996 Pipeline.
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