Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:22 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout Message-ID: <20050110132422.54ea9b2b@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050110180649.GA45481@ip.net.ua> <20050110131111.6446bd24@mobile.pittgoth.com> <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:15:29 -0700 Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: > Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200 > > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > >>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Would anyone care if I removed rtld-aout in CURRENT and eventually > >>>in RELENG_5? It was unhooked over two years ago during the removal > >>>of a.out support by peter. Reviewing the Makefile, it doesn't seem > >>>to be built for any architecture. Patch URL is listed below but it > >>>review shouldn't be needed. > >>> > >>>Comments? Yes/no/Tom go away? > >>> > >> > >>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a > >>port first, then remove. > > > > > > Yep, I recall. And we see how that happened eh? :) > > > > Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken > > > > I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x, > but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a I didn't think we even did that. *shurg* > certain gcc port). How does rtld-aout fit into this? Does this mean > that we can only run static aout binaries now? It's used for dynamic linking a.out so I would guess you're right about that. :( -- Tom Rhodes
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