From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 10:17:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23732 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rain.futuresouth.com (rain.futuresouth.com [198.79.79.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23708 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stormy@rain.futuresouth.com) Received: (from stormy@localhost) by rain.futuresouth.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA56218 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:17:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from stormy) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:17:41 -0600 From: Stormy Henderson To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Stable References: <001f01be4f9c$88a5c3d0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <001f01be4f9c$88a5c3d0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>; from Thomas T. Veldhouse on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A happy camper (Thomas T. Veldhouse, veldy@visi.com) once wrote... > I just installed a fresh 3.0-19990202-SNAP on one of my machines. I > then proceeded to build X with elf and a.out libraries.I installed > netscape and it wouldn't start because it could not find ld.so. I could > not find ld.so [...] However, I have to wonder if there is a problem > with the Release process that is missing this file/link. a.out will be gone from FreeBSD as of 3.1, and is disabled by default in 3.0. This would be fine except for the 3rd party a.out binaries...like Netscape. One hopes Netscape will switch to ELF before a.out is gone (hah). Be happy... -- Stormy Henderson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message