Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:17:41 -0600 From: Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com> To: FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <001f01be4f9c$88a5c3d0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>; from Thomas T. Veldhouse on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0600 References: <001f01be4f9c$88a5c3d0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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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...
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Stormy Henderson
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