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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 14:15:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gcc differences between aout & ELF
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905051414510.24610-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990504235146.D419@marder-1>

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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:

> > > Should I expect there to be any differences between the same version
> > > of gcc under 2.2.8 and 3.1, other than one outputting aout files and
> > > the other outputting ELF?.
> > > 
> > > I have a (large) program that compiled and linked fine using gcc 2.8.1
> > > (*not* the standard gcc used for building the system). After u/g to
> > > 3.1 this program wouldn't run as some of the required aout libs are
> > > not installed. I installed gcc-2.8.1 from the packages on the 3.1 CD
> > > and recompiled my program but I get errors, mainly from the linker
> > > (undefined symbols etc).

Why don't you rebuild the required libraries to ELF?

> > We had to move the a.out libraries to another area and set up ldconfig to
> > cache them independently.  If you didn't install the 2.2 compatibility
> > distribution then you're missing those libraries.
> > 
> > The libs should be in /lib-path/aout.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I know. It's mainly the xview libs that are missing (not part
> of the base dist. or the 2.2 compat stuff) that is why I decided
> to re-compile it all as ELF.
> 
> I'm just interested as to why the same version of gcc should,
> seemingly behave differently under 2.2.8 and 3.1

It's not, it's acting as it always had.  You just have new libraries to
consider.

Doug White                               
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