From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 22 9:18:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD2214C24 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 09:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d60-077.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.77]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA83904 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 09:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA60734 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 May 1999 16:18:44 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:18:44 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" 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> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <19990522155701.A67458@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990522155701.A67458@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>; from Ruslan Ermilov on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:57:01PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message