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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:23:59 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: elf & compat
Message-ID:  <199809230523.XAA26107@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809230314.UAA17867@usr06.primenet.com>
References:  <26071.906444360@time.cdrom.com> <199809230314.UAA17867@usr06.primenet.com>

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> > > They're still being built, tho.  I want that for aout, but not elf,
> > > right?
> > 
> > Uh, right.  Compat libs for things which never existed in ELF form
> > would be somewhat superfluous, doncha think? :-)
> 
> So a program which, when build a.out, require an a.out libgnumalloc,
> will, when built ELF, *not* require an ELF libgnumalloc?

Because any program that used an a.out libgnumalloc was built in FreeBSD
1.* days (libgnumalloc was made static a *LONG* time ago), and any new
programs wouldn't need a non-existant shlib.  The same can be said of
all of the other compat libraries, which are for *old* binaries from
older FreeBSD releases.  There are no 'old' FreeBSD releases that have
'old' ELF shared libraries.


Nate

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