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Date:      Sat, 07 Sep 2002 19:27:04 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out binary users! 
Message-ID:  <20020908022704.91D412A894@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20020907190825.00a956c8@pozo.com> 

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Manfred Antar wrote:
> At 12:23 AM 9/7/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >Peter Wemm wrote:
> >> You will need to either add:
> >> options COMPAT_AOUT
> >> to your kernel config when you next rebuild, or do a 'kldload aout'
> >> when you want to run an old a.out binary.
> >
> >Is this going to be turned on be default in the rc scripts,
> >until such time as sysinstall is taught about asking the user
> >the same way it asks the user about compatability packages or
> >Linux emulation?
> >
> >-- Terry
> >
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> 
> I cant get a kernel to compile without COMPAT_AOUT:
> 
> (pro2)201}make
> linking kernel.debug
> imgact_gzip.o: In function `do_aout_hdr':
> ../../../kern/imgact_gzip.c:280: undefined reference to `aout_sysvec'
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/pro2.
> 
> Works fine if I add options COMPAT_AOUT

options GZIP

is support for running gzipped a.out executables.  You probbly want to
remove that instead.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
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