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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:39:31 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies 
Message-ID:  <199809170539.NAA28385@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:57:21 CST." <199809170357.VAA13052@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199809170319.UAA26241@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
> :     /usr/bin/doscmd	currently built for a.out tree only
> 
> This should build for all trees, but only as a.out.  It works on an
> otherwise elf system.  Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't
> build for elf systems because it needs the aout libraries.  Yuck.
> Looks like a conversion is in order.  Yuck++;
> 
> Warner

I "fixed" this at home by making doscmd.kernel be built in -aout mode.  The doscmd driver
program just has a simple a.out loader.  Making it understand elf wouldn't be too
hard and is probably the right thing - or use some other simple format that binutils
can generate.

> 

Cheers,
-Peter



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