From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 11:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08954 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geocities.com (mail11.geocities.com [209.1.224.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08948 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhaskin@geocities.com) Received: from brianjr (220R1.infinitecom.com [199.176.148.87] (may be forged)) by geocities.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA00177; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian Haskin" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Subject: RE: New aout-to-elf build failures. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:30:31 -0500 Message-ID: <000601be34f4$0789f9a0$0b00000a@brianjr.haskin.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <14243.915081082@zippy.cdrom.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:11 AM > To: Brian Haskin > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: New aout-to-elf build failures. > > > > Ok, as I'm not and haven't done any of the work I certainly > don't have any > > say, but just to add something that you might want to consider. > I've been > > thinking that it would be nice if the aout to elf build would > be supported > > till a little after the branch split. This would allow people following > > stable the option of source upgrades the whole way through. But > maybe this > > adds to much "cruft" to the start of the new stable branch? > > I don't mind them following -current up to and after the branch, but > they need to go ELF before that. It's just getting too difficult to > support both worlds and I no longer even have a 3.0/a.out box handy > here for testing such an environment. > > - Jordan > I must have stated this wrong. Let me pull in another of your messages: > > I started getting worked up over this about how I needed to get all my > > machines caught up (I run -STABLE all over the place here), then realized: > > -stable people don't need to care about any of the above right now > anyway. :-) > > - Jordan Ok, what you've stated above along with the additional thought that they will care come Jan. 16 or whenever it is that the 3.0 branch splits into a new stable and current branch is the point I was trying to make. To state it another way, will there be an easy (source not binary) route for people at the end off the 2.2-stable branch to get to the beginning 3.0-stable branch? Also I just upgraded to -current using the 12/24 snap and then cvsuping the rest of the way. I see via /etc/objformat that I'm, by default, using elf for the binary format. Are the elf boot blocks and kernel being used by default also; how do I tell? Brian Haskin haskin@ptway.com Home page: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/4333/ Always remember money is simply a level of indirection. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message