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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:40:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF -current users: HEADS UP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809050839210.245-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809042359340.21019-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:
[..]
> John, many of use have huge time investments in /usr/local/lib and
> /usr/X11R6/lib ports-derived libraries.  While I'm definitely going to
> be wanting to transition these to elf, I'd not wanted to have to do it
> suddenly.  How will this ldconfig change affect the fact that my elf
> system still must use many aout libs (and probably will for some months
> ahead)?  Understand the point of this question isn't system libs, its
> all the ports stuff, which just won't transition in one swell foop like
> the system did.

Move _all_ your a.out libs (except perhaps your static ones, which can
most likely be deleted) to /usr/lib/aout. This frees up any other dirs to
be purely ELF.

- alex

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