Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:41:17 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? Message-ID: <200012180641.eBI6fH607564@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <20001217135431.C9721@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> from "Donald J . Maddox" at "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:54:31 -0500" References: <20001216161756.A6370@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012171658.eBHGwGW24109@dungeon.home> <20001217135431.C9721@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
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On Sunday, 17th December 2000, "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: >Under the circumstances, it seems silly to have aout conpat >bits installed at all, seeing as how they cannot work. Old programs that don't depend on recompiled libraries are fine. I can't guess at the percentages though. Also, nearly everybody has recompiled for elf, where this problem never occurred. >Like you, I normally upgrade from source -- This box has >been -current ever since 2.0.5 or so was -current, but I >had to reinstall from scratch a while back by installing >4.2-RELEASE and then cvsupping back to -current, so I >guess I lost my working aout ld.so in the process. Bummer :( I expected some build tool expert to say "Just compile with these options". But they haven't. So I'll see if the bits have rotted, or whether we can keep building ld.so instead of just including an age old binary. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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