Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? Message-ID: <19991211130902.C14998@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:23:40AM %2B0200 References: <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:23:40AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Are you sure? Any a.out binaries for FreeBSD are going to be desgined > to work with 3.x or older. Why??? A.out runs just fine on 4.0-R, and had better on 5.0-R. > So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-) Nope. You really need to think about the ISV's. Why do you think Netscape is still a.out? ISV's want to produce one binary that runs across multiple generations of FreeBSD. Take Applixware for instance. It is built on 3.1. It needs compat3x to run on CURRENT. Don't be surprised if Applixware is still built on 3.1 when 5.0-R hits the streets. What I'm getting at here is ISV's needs are different from ours as OS developers. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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