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Date:      Sat, 22 May 1999 09:18:44 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ALERT] a.out support is broken in 3.2-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <19990522091844.B60647@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990522155701.A67458@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>; from Ruslan Ermilov on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:57:01PM %2B0300
References:  <19990522155701.A67458@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>

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> Problem
> -------
> 
> Fact: ld.so (rtld-aout) is built as part of ``legacy-build'' and then
>       installed as part of ``legacy-install''.  In order to build it,
>       one needs to pass -DWANT_AOUT to the ``make world'' process.
>       This will build a.out libraries and legacy boot as well.


Ok, I'm going to blow up here...

People  PLEASE drop this topic.  It is being addressed -- maybe not as
fast as people like, but it is being addressed.

I really, REALLY don't understand why all of a sudden this problem is
comming up when the compat22 distribution was made a while ago.  Also, I
install the compat* distributions and forget about them.  I've never had
ld.so problems.  I really don't understand why so many people want to
reinstall the compatXX files with every ``make world''.  But I guess we
do support such functionality, so someone should use it.

So are people deleting ld.so before evey ``make world''.  I also never
make the a.out libs.  Remember any a.out libs made with "WANT_AOUT" will
be 3.2 libs with the same functional contents as the ELF ones.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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