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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:40:36 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        joseph <altea@attbi.com>
Cc:        current list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: aout support not working on todays -current
Message-ID:  <20030123134036.GA64358@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <1043306715.849.14.camel@Imerxion.we.client2.attbi.com>
References:  <20030121163635.GB82912@luke.immure.com> <1043306715.849.14.camel@Imerxion.we.client2.attbi.com>

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:25:16PM -0800, joseph wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Go into your kernel of choice and
> build it with the following:
> 
> options COMPAT_AOUT 
> 
> now to enable AOUT binaries from the kernel loader.
> Make and Install and reboot the about new kerenl
> and aout will now work for you.
> :) joseph

I do have this option enabled (see below). I didn't change my kernel
config file from last week to this and last week's kernel properly runs
aout files and the new one doesn't. Something must have changed in the
past week.

Bob

> 
> 
> AOUT binaries... elf is the all around executable format for most 
> loadable binaries.. 
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:36, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > I cvsup'd and built and installed a new -current system and kernel this
> > morning and immediately noticed that my setiathome processes no longer
> > ran. It appears that aout support is no longer working in -current.
> > 
> > Note that I do have the COMPAT_AOUT option set in my kernel config file
> > (it is the same config file that I used to build with about a week ago
> > and that kernel runs aout files just fine).
> > 
> > Anybody have any clues as to what happened?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox            We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that
bob@vieo.com           reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains
Austin, TX             perfection.      -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]

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