[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 7.2 and 64/32 bit issues

[Charles Sprickman]

Mark (and Chris),

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Mark Saad wrote:

> Charles
>  Ls and the megaraid tool work b/c they are staticly linked ie they have 
> a 32bit version of libc.so.4 compiled in to them..

Thanks for solving that mystery.  An odd thing about the megaraid tool is 
that the version from ports has a check for 32 bit libraries, which seems 
odd since my direct download from LSI works fine.

> There is also two ways to get lib32 installed. 1. It is an optional 
> install set from sysinstall . 2. If you have a cvs checkout of freebsd 
> you can run build just the 32bit libs , I can't remember exactly but 
> check the makefile for a build32 command or a buildworld32 something 
> like that.

Interesting.  I see a "build32" target in /usr/src/Makefile.  After more 
googling, I found this:

http://old.nabble.com/**-FreeBSD-6.2---amd64---attempting-to-install-32bit-library-support-**-td15704398.html

It's a bit old, but apparently the correct way to do this is to set 
"WITH_LIB32=yes" in /etc/make.conf.  Thankfully this is not a desktop, I 
don't even want to imagine the confusion that ensues when trying to run 
something like a 64 bit Firefox with a 32-bit linux version of flash or 
some other insane nonsense.

I'm a bit surprised this isn't a handbook entry yet.

In the past I've setup a 4.11 jail on a 6.3 host.  For giggles, and to try 
to beat some dying hardware to the punch, I'm going to try a 4.8 jail on 
this thing and see what happens.  The 4.11 "solution" worked incredibly 
well.  I wish I'd documented more of that procedure...

Charles

>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Charles Sprickman
> Sender: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org
> To: nycbug talk
> Sent: Nov 2, 2009 9:17 PM
> Subject: [nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 7.2 and 64/32 bit issues
>
> Howdy,
>
> So I finally have my first server that actually needs to run 64-bit 
> FreeBSD.  Out of the box, everything seems fine and dandy.
>
> I was looking for some info in the handbook/FAQ about compatibility issues 
> with 32-bit binaries, but didn't really find anything definitive (I may 
> need to temporarily run a 32-bit jail).
>
> Where can I find more basics about how the system deals with mixed 
> binaries?  I see many mentions online about a "/usr/lib32" directory, but 
> my install has no such thing.  Oddly enough, a random "/bin/ls" copied 
> from a 4.8 box (yes, different major OS version AND 32 bit) "just works". 
> I also grabbed LSI's "MegaCli" binary from their site.  It's a 32-bit 
> binary and it works with no issues.
>
> In short it seems like it's all too easy, so I'm suspicious...
>
> Any pointers to more reading?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> [root at bigmail /home/spork]# file /lib/libc.so.7
> /lib/libc.so.7: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), 
> stripped
> (yes, the system appears to be 64-bit)
>
> [root at bigmail /home/spork]# file ls
> ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for 
> FreeBSD 4.8, statically linked, FreeBSD-style, stripped
> [root at bigmail /home/spork]# ./ls
> .bash_history                   .shrc
> .cshrc                          .ssh
> .login                          5-1.00.15_FreeBSD_MegaCLI.zip
> .login_conf                     5.00.15_FreeBSD_MegaCLI.txt
> .mail_aliases                   CmdTool.log
> .mailrc                         MegaCli
> .profile                        MegaSAS.log
> .rhosts                         ls
>
> [root at bigmail /home/spork]# file MegaCli
> MegaCli: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), 
> statically linked, stripped
> [root at bigmail /home/spork]# ./MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -a0
> ...
>                 ================
> Product Name    : PERC 6/i Integrated
> Serial No       : 1122334455667788
> FW Package Build: 6.2.0-0013
> ...
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