From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 1 22:02:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16439 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16432 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id QAA26654; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:02:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma026632; Mon, 2 Mar 98 16:01:47 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA21273; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:01:45 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA273928504; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:01:44 +1100 Message-Id: <34FA4B49.4747FC37@scitec.com.au> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:01:45 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: <199803020525.VAA11248@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > John S. Dyson wrote: > > > It seems that we'll have ELF support, > > > but I forget (or simply don't know) if we (they) decided that ELF will be > > > primary or not. > > > > Has anyone decided what the aout to elf upgrade procedure will be? > > That's likely to come out of the bruises that the 'early adopters' are > going to wear, but I would say that the initial approach will be "set > BINFORMAT=elf and rebuild the world". You might want to be running a kernel that groks ELF with ELF shared libraries installed before you do a make world. Otherwise I can see a point where you overwrite an a.out program that is needed to complete the make world. Is 3.0 going to be like Linux and understand both executable formats? Will the make world build both ELF and a.out shared libraries? Or will a.out basically die off? Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message