Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:43:31 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <36B8DF23.74D12FA7@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <001f01be4f9c$88a5c3d0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com>
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Stormy Henderson wrote: > > 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). > Uh? Just builded 3.0 (sources CVSup'ed 1999/02/03): a.out binaries can be builded (setting OBJFORMAT=aout) and executed without trouble. I think that a.out support will stay with us for a long, long time (perhaps under /compat/bsd22). What will be gone soon is the possibility to _build_ an a.out system using "make world". -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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