Topic: ABI - other binary support - any one used it with SME

[timb]

I am doing a server upgrade for a client. Their requirements are well met by an SME except that they require ABI support.

Has anyone put ABI onto an SME?

No matter what distro I use - I will have to build ABI for the kernel - so I was thinking why not SME?

If you dont know what ABI is - its support for old Unix binaries. In my project there's this ol' cobol application... mission critical - you get the picture :-{

[arnoldob]

Did you ever get this working? I'm interested in either running abi-sco to support an old SCO based application from this site:

http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/linuxabi.html

Or, I think I can get the source. Perhaps re-compiling it to run on my SME 6.01 box is a possibility. I have no experience with re-compliing code but am willing to learn with a good nudge in the right direction.

Thanks,

[timb]

In short - no I didnt get it working.

ABI support was available in sme56 and I attempted to install our 3rd party application on a sme56 test machine. I encountered a lot of problems - old cobol environment. It wouldn't work. Dont know that ABI wasnt working fine.

To get a 601 solution I was looking at downgrading the kernel, and with lack of success on the 56 application build - I chickened out.

Also the supplier expressed a desire to keep the application on a seperate machine - I couldn't resist his requests - we were on a budget!

Recompiling is fairly easy - you need the source for the kernel (its stock in 2.4.18 - I think) and do a standard kernel build.

Good luck - it you get it going on 601 please drop me a line