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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209021241040.5605-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020902193842.GA49786@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:24:19PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > I thought it was part of the plan to drop all traces of a.out support in
> > 5.x.  Am I wrong?
> 
> We should be *very* careful to accurately describe what is being
> suggested.
> 
> I believe it is that 5.x a.out binaries not be supported.  However, 2.x
> a.out binaries will be supported.  This is different thatn "drop all
> traces of a.out support".

yes binary support will remain.. if you need to generate new ones (?)
unpack a 2.2.6 system into a chroot tree (jail?) and make it there :-)



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