Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:33:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf & compat Message-ID: <19980922113329.A10186@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <28256.906469507@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:05:07AM -0700 References: <19980922043253.A10077@nuxi.com> <28256.906469507@time.cdrom.com>
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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
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