Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:00:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I build an a.out kld? Message-ID: <19981229100025.K12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812281145.TAA65000@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 07:44:59PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812281041290.381-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <199812281145.TAA65000@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Monday, 28 December 1998 at 19:44:59 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Doug Rabson wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> [..]
>>> 2. I could build an a.out kld. Unfortunately, there's an
>>> (undocumented) program called gensetdefs which runs against the
>>> objects, and expects only ELF files. It doesn't understand an
>>> -aout flag. Can I get past this problem?
>>
>> Are you using bsd.kmod.mk? If you look at it, gensetdefs is only used for
>> elf. Linking an a.out module is even simpler:
>>
>> ${LD} -Bshareable ${LDFLAGS} -o ${.TARGET} ${OBJS} ${KMODDEPS}
>>
>> Try 'make OBJFORMAT=aout' and see what happens.
>
> Err, my recollection was that it needed to be in the environment, ie more
> like: env OBJFORMAT=aout make
Neither of these answer the original question: how to I get gensetdefs
to work on a.out objects?
It's now a moot point: I've just about finished migrating to ELF,
which I had to do anyway at some point. Thanks to you and Jordan for
the details on that.
Greg
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