Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:39:31 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies Message-ID: <199809170539.NAA28385@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:57:21 CST." <199809170357.VAA13052@harmony.village.org>
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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
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