From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 7 19:27: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F8D37B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94B043E3B for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D412A894; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Manfred Antar Cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out binary users! In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20020907190825.00a956c8@pozo.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 19:27:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020908022704.91D412A894@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Manfred Antar wrote: > At 12:23 AM 9/7/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > >Peter Wemm wrote: > >> You will need to either add: > >> options COMPAT_AOUT > >> to your kernel config when you next rebuild, or do a 'kldload aout' > >> when you want to run an old a.out binary. > > > >Is this going to be turned on be default in the rc scripts, > >until such time as sysinstall is taught about asking the user > >the same way it asks the user about compatability packages or > >Linux emulation? > > > >-- Terry > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > I cant get a kernel to compile without COMPAT_AOUT: > > (pro2)201}make > linking kernel.debug > imgact_gzip.o: In function `do_aout_hdr': > ../../../kern/imgact_gzip.c:280: undefined reference to `aout_sysvec' > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/pro2. > > Works fine if I add options COMPAT_AOUT options GZIP is support for running gzipped a.out executables. You probbly want to remove that instead. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message