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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 1999 15:36:37 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?
Message-ID:  <384FBE75.68B333BC@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912091504580.70874-100000@mx.webgiro.com>

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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> > 1. extract /usr/src/lib (distribution files: src/slib.??)
> > 2. cd /usr/src/lib/csu/i386
> > 3. make depend
> > 4. make OBJFORMAT=aout clean all install
> 
> True. But this adds a dependency for this port on the src/lib tree. I was
> thinking about average people that have binary distribution + kernel
> sources. They are screwed.

The dependency always existed, because people without src/lib cannot
make legacy a.out as part of their world, for which you also need more
than kernel sources alone :-)

The point here is that you don't need a legacy a.out build as part of
your world to get this port working.

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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