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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:22 -0500
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout
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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