From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 11:47:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10380 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10356 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@the.oneinsane.net) Received: (from insane@localhost) by the.oneinsane.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA01036 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:15 -0800 From: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <19990203114715.A27993@the.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: insane@oneinsane.net References: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Holling on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD the.oneinsane.net 2.2.8-STABLE X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 11:46AM up 6 days, 3:06, 7 users, load averages: 1.02, 0.86, 1.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800, Mike Holling wrote: > > 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 I have to agree with Mike here.. Especially when I am bringing a new box up to play with 3.0 while I have 2 happily running 2.2.8-STABLE TIA Ron -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message