Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:23:40 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> 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: <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 %2B0900." <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp>
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On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900, 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. Are you sure? Any a.out binaries for FreeBSD are going to be desgined to work with 3.x or older. So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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