From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 20:43:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17423 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17320 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA03852; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:48:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809230348.NAA03852@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: elf & compat In-Reply-To: <199809230314.UAA17867@usr06.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 23, 98 03:14:11 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:48:13 +1000 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > They're still being built, tho. I want that for aout, but not elf, > > > right? > > > > Uh, right. Compat libs for things which never existed in ELF form > > would be somewhat superfluous, doncha think? :-) > > So a program which, when build a.out, require an a.out libgnumalloc, > will, when built ELF, *not* require an ELF libgnumalloc? > > How does that work? I thought the /usr/lib/compat libraries were provided for backward compatibility, not as a set of libraries for linking new programs against. Since we haven't released anything in ELF format yet, we have nothing to keep compatibility with. Programs which require an ELF version of gnumalloc should get that from /usr/local/lib. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message