From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 18 20:38:41 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 20:38:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.pacific.net.au (ns5.pacific.net.au [203.143.252.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED3537B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp117.dyn249.pacific.net.au [203.143.249.117]) by ns5.pacific.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA19821; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:38:32 +1100 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eBJ4d4o10165; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:39:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200012190439.eBJ4d4o10165@dungeon.home> To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: current@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? References: <200012181500.eBIF0S612182@dungeon.home> <12581.977171490@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <12581.977171490@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:31:30 +0000" Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:39:04 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 18th December 2000, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> The generated ld.so has bloated a bit :-) but works fine. So we could >> in principle build ld.so for every release. It's just a question of >> whether we should. I think we should. But it might be just as easy >> to copy it off the 3.3 CD every time. It's dead end stuff after all. >> >> Does the release engineer have an opinion? > >If it's just for the compat3x distribution, I say check it into that >part of lib/compat and be done with it. Uudecoding it each time is a >lot easier than building it. Or are we talking about ld.so in some >different context? I hadn't noticed all the uuencoded things in lib/compat before. This is obviously the way to fix it. By the way, it's the compat22 distribution that needs fixing, and, as previously noted, it's the 3.2 CD that has the last fully working ld.so. I'll get onto committing a fix. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message