Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:39:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> Cc: Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com>, FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <13417.918081594@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:32:57 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
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There's no decision to reverse. We're already ELF and there's certainly no going back at this point - many of our ISVs are already switching their products over. The a.out libraries are still available, of course, and I have no problems running any of my reasonably (~1 year) up to date a.out stuff. - Jordan > > a.out will be gone from FreeBSD as of 3.1, and is disabled by default in > > 3.0. This would be fine except for the 3rd party a.out binaries...like > > Netscape. One hopes Netscape will switch to ELF before a.out is gone > > (hah). > > I suspect that this decision will be reversed, or a huge majority of the > -stable crowd will stick with 2.2.8 forever. It's pretty unlikely that > everything can be recompiled for ELF that quickly. > > - Mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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