From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 11:35:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28641 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28635 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id LAA11441; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980922113329.A10186@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:33:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: John Birrell , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf & compat Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19980922043253.A10077@nuxi.com> <28256.906469507@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <28256.906469507@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:05:07AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:05:07AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > The plan is to have aout libraries only in aout sub-directories. Then when > > > we no longer need aout support, we just prune them. /usr/lib/compat is > > > > So we are going to toss 2.x support?? (sarcastic) > > Um, he already answered that question. The 2.x stuff goes in > /usr/lib/compat/aout, the legacy elf stuff goes in /usr/lib/compat. > Simple. Since there ARE NO LEGACY ELF LIBRARIES YET, the > /usr/lib/compat directory will have no libraries in it, which is what > he meant by "empty" in this context. Do we need to enlarge your font > or what? (more sarcastic :-). I was speaking about the "when we no longer need them - prune them". I can see not really supporting pre 3.0-RELEAES 3.0 a.out binaries, so that would mean the `aout' dir contains more than just junk. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message