From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 15:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11370 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11363 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01966; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:47:33 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809031547.PAA01966@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Expect more breakage (Re: ELF broke crunchgen/crunchide) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 23:34:00 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 15:47:33 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote: > > > In article , > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > Today I tried to use crunchgen, and it fails miserably, because it plays > > > directly with a.out format. I guess we need to teach it about elves... > > ...and I should add to this, that other floppy-generation related tools > are also affected. E.g. ELF kzip doesn't work, because it tries to link an > ELF stub with a.out kernel. kzip is obsoleted by the new bootloader, although I'm not sure that's going to help your case much. (kzip is smaller than the new bootloader). You could build kzip a.out pretty easily. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message