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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile
In-Reply-To: <15468.908012311@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 10, 98 02:38:31 am"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > (I've gone with another of your suggestions, and the new boot2
> > supports both a.out and ELF, which means an ELF /boot/loader binary
> > is feasible.)
> > 
> > So for /sys/boot/i386/Makefile, I suggest we do something like:
> > 
> > .MAKEFLAGS:	BTXLDFMT=${OBJFORMAT} OBJFORMAT=elf
> 
> Hmmm.  Is that really the right makefile for it?

Well, it works.  But (assuming your question was rhetorical), what do
you prefer?

-- 
Robert Nordier