From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 18 10:12:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 10:12:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com (cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com [24.88.102.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC43D37B404 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:12:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBIICcM63940 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:12:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:12:38 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? Message-ID: <20001218131237.A56550@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <20001216161756.A6370@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012171658.eBHGwGW24109@dungeon.home> <20001217135431.C9721@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012180641.eBI6fH607564@dungeon.home> <20001218014656.A17483@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012181500.eBIF0S612182@dungeon.home> <20001218100315.A67679@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001218100315.A67679@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:03:15AM -0800 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: dmaddox@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't need a CDROM... You can get it from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/commerce/games/SimCity/SimCity-3.6b.tgz On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:03:15AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:00:28AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > So we could in principle build ld.so for every release. > > I would say "no". The building of a.out bits is getting harder as more > and more framework pieces are removed. I don't quite fully understand > the problem yet. Do you have a binary that shows the problem other than > SimCity from a 3.x release CDROM? I don't have any 3.x CDROMs any more, > so I'd have to wait a while until I can find one at the office. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message