From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 11:33:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08009 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phluffy.fks.bt (net25-cust199.pdx.wantweb.net [24.236.25.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07978 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Received: from localhost (myke@localhost) by phluffy.fks.bt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04317; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:32:57 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling X-Sender: myke@phluffy.fks.bt To: Stormy Henderson cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem In-Reply-To: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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). I suspect that this decision will be reversed, or a huge majority of the -stable crowd will stick with 2.2.8 forever. It's pretty unlikely that everything can be recompiled for ELF that quickly. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message