-----Original message-----
From: Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:16:16 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can't compile Ipfilter4.1.4 on Solaris9 (SPARC)

> Hans Werner Strube wrote:
> > jing shen wrote:
> >
> >>But, when I tried to set up startup scripts in /etc/rc2.d I met
> >>another question. Someone says original startup script should be
> >>modified to run 64bits ipfilter. That is, /usr/sbin/sparcv9/ipf is
> >>ipfilter 64bit code & /usr/sbin/ipf is 32bits.
> >>
> >>Need I modify it ?
> >
> >
> > No, /usr/sbin/ipf is a hard link to /usr/lib/isaexec, which automatically
> > selects the appropriate binary /usr/sbin/sparcv7/ipf or 
> > /usr/sbin/sparcv9/ipf.
> 
> Hrm. I just noticed something...
> 
> On sparc, /sbin/ipf is a symlink to /usr/sbin/ipf which is, as you
> mentioned a hardlink to isaexec.
> 
> On the other hand, in solaris x86, /usr/sbin/ipf doesn't exist, and
> /sbin/ipf is the actual ipf binary....
> 
> Now I wouldn't expect isaexec to be used on x86... it isn't needed...

Hi Phil, and others,

Well, now with AMD64, Solaris 10 x86/x64 can run in 32 or 64 bits, we'll need 
the same structure for x86/x64.

Simon.

> but why is /usr/sbin/ipf on one arch but not the other, and why is
> /sbin/ipf a symlink on one arch and real on another. That seems wrong to
> me...
> 
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