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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:24:05 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Andrew Turner <andrew@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280220 - head/usr.bin/ldd
Message-ID:  <10082987.nfhPBgOc2O@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20150318150425.GV2379@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201503181359.t2IDx5MO086217@svn.freebsd.org> <2184487.KWP1t96Knu@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20150318150425.GV2379@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 05:04:25 PM Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:33:45AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 01:59:05 PM Andrew Turner wrote:
> > > Author: andrew
> > > Date: Wed Mar 18 13:59:04 2015
> > > New Revision: 280220
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/280220
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Allowus to exclude a.out support from ldd and use it with arm64 as it won't
> > >   support the a.out format.
> > 
> > Similarly here.  Perhaps it could also be enabled for amd64 to support running
> > old FreeBSD/i386 binaries, but there's no need for it on other arm, mips,
> > powerpc, sparc64, etc.
> > 
> I do not think amd64 binary needs a.out support.  Only kernel components
> and ldd32 need this, and for ldd32 build, the __i386__ preprocessor
> symbol should be defined.

Even better then.

-- 
John Baldwin



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