From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 1 22:46:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20096 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20091 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:46:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10842; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:45:12 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199803020645.HAA10842@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <34FA4B49.4747FC37@scitec.com.au> from John Saunders at "Mar 2, 98 05:01:45 pm" To: john.saunders@scitec.com.au (John Saunders) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:45:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to John Saunders who wrote: > > 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? As the "director" of the ELF project, I can tell you that we will do our utmost to make this transition easy and painless. All the needed utils will be broght in over the next week or so, and then it will be made possible to convert the userland to ELF. It will still be possible to use aout, and the system default will probably be aout for some time to come. The kernel is another matter, which we will address after the userlanc transition. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message