From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 12:06:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07729 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from maui.net (maui.net [207.175.210.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07720 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from langfod@maui.net) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by maui.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA24722; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:06:31 -1000 (HST) From: David Langford Message-Id: <199811102006.KAA24722@maui.net> Subject: Re: What snapshot does aout-to-elf work on? To: sgasch@microsoft.com (Scott Gasch) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:06:29 -1000 (HST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD540700D913@RED-MSG-44> from "Scott Gasch" at Nov 10, 98 09:50:45 am X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hi there, > >I have been trying to convert a 3.0 system from aout to elf format. I tried >to build a make aout-to-elf on last night's sources and the thing dies after >it has moved the aout libraries and before it has installed the elf >libraries (leaving the system a total mess, of course). > >What's the deal with this and what snapshot has a stable aout-to-elf build? > >Thanks, >Scott You dont say why it dies or what version you are using but a few hints from the gotchas I found: 1) Go ahead and CVSUP current. 2) Be SURE that you are also getting src-tools (or the whole tree) 3) do a "make world" for aout. 4) Make a new kernel with latest code. You may wish to make a new config file- I tend to use LINT as a template. -Reboot- 5) check that "/etc/make.conf" is using nothing higher than -O as anything higher breaks some of the ELF ojects. 6) "make aout-to-elf" Couple of odd things the aout-to-elf move will move almost all of your shared libraries but it doesnt move all of the symbolic links to the library files. Also it wont update the /var/db/pkg +CONTENTS files so pkg_delete will not work right. -David Langford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message