Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:15:29 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout Message-ID: <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110131111.6446bd24@mobile.pittgoth.com> References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050110180649.GA45481@ip.net.ua> <20050110131111.6446bd24@mobile.pittgoth.com>
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Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200 > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Would anyone care if I removed rtld-aout in CURRENT and eventually >>>in RELENG_5? It was unhooked over two years ago during the removal >>>of a.out support by peter. Reviewing the Makefile, it doesn't seem >>>to be built for any architecture. Patch URL is listed below but it >>>review shouldn't be needed. >>> >>>Comments? Yes/no/Tom go away? >>> >> >>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a >>port first, then remove. > > > Yep, I recall. And we see how that happened eh? :) > > Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken > I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x, but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a certain gcc port). How does rtld-aout fit into this? Does this mean that we can only run static aout binaries now? Scott
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