Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:16:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? Message-ID: <384F656B.52F01F9B@newsguy.com> References: <19991209163452O.shigeru@iij.ad.jp> <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp>
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Motoyuki Konno wrote: > > I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support > (a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. Some commercial > programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to > make a.out binaries. > > Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find > out why we still have to need a.out support. Current is not a general use platform. And if we want them (third party) to support FreeBSD-elf by the time 4.x becomes -stable, we better lock them out of it *now*. The main reason for removing the legacy support is forcing people to switch. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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