From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 22:55:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10922 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10887 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id NAA12900; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:52:57 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199809230552.NAA12900@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf & compat In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:14:11 GMT." <199809230314.UAA17867@usr06.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:52:56 +0800 From: Peter Wemm 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? They were provided for link-time compatability with old a.out binaries. We have not been providing gnumalloc at all for some time. The presense of the ELF libgnumalloc stub is just an oversight. The reason for /usr/lib/compat in the first place was so that ld and autoconfig wouldn't "find" -lgnumalloc or -lresolv etc, but without busting backwards compatability with "old" binaries. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message