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Date:      Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:50:56 -0700
From:      Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out binary users! 
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.2.20020907204909.00a95558@pozo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020908022704.91D412A894@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <5.1.1.6.2.20020907190825.00a956c8@pozo.com>

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At 07:27 PM 9/7/2002 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
>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
>> >
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>> 
>> 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

I thought it was for gzipped kernels which I use sometimes,
So I left it in.
Manfred

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