Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 16:24:57 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? Message-ID: <199912112124.QAA77568@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991211130902.C14998@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991211130902.C14998@dragon.nuxi.com>
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<<On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> said: >> [Attribution lost.] >> 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. Which, of course, is the whole point. There is no forward compatibility, only backward. a.out binaries compiled on 4.0 simply WILL NOT WORK on 3.x, unless they're in that tiny class of trivial programs which do not invoke any sort of signal handling. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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