From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 10:41:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20021 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enst.enst.fr (enst.enst.fr [137.194.2.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19941 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beyssac@enst.fr) Received: from rumba.enst.fr (rumba.enst.fr [137.194.32.188]) by enst.enst.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA03679 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:39:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from beyssac@localhost) by rumba.enst.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25207 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:39:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980922193953.B24869@rumba.enst.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:39:53 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 19980921-BETA: more comments Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another small problem with the installed configuration: all the distribution is in ELF format, but the default configuration seems to generate a.out executables when installing packages. For example I installed bash-2.02 through the standard GNU procedure, and I got the following (I noticed it because "size" at the end of the bash compilation failed): fbdell# file bash bash: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped fbdell# size bash /usr/libexec/elf/size: bash: File format not recognized -- Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message