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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:27:15 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?
Message-ID:  <384F8403.875CB81D@scc.nl>
References:  <19991209163452O.shigeru@iij.ad.jp>

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YAMAMOTO Shigeru wrote:
> 
> In a log of @src/Makefile, revision 1.230,
> 
> o  The legacy aout build has been removed.
> 
> Why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current?

There's no point in building legacy a.out stuff from -current sources.
The result has nothing to do with legacy but only with a.out.
Compatibility with legacy a.out binaries can best be achieved by
installing the proper compat distribution (compat22 for example).

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