From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 16 22:41:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20285 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20267 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id NAA28385; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:39:31 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199809170539.NAA28385@spinner.netplex.com.au> To: Warner Losh cc: Matthew Dillon , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:57:21 CST." <199809170357.VAA13052@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:39:31 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199809170319.UAA26241@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: > : /usr/bin/doscmd currently built for a.out tree only > > This should build for all trees, but only as a.out. It works on an > otherwise elf system. Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't > build for elf systems because it needs the aout libraries. Yuck. > Looks like a conversion is in order. Yuck++; > > Warner I "fixed" this at home by making doscmd.kernel be built in -aout mode. The doscmd driver program just has a simple a.out loader. Making it understand elf wouldn't be too hard and is probably the right thing - or use some other simple format that binutils can generate. > Cheers, -Peter