From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 5 08:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02644 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-47.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02591 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00591; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:40:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Chuck Robey cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF -current users: HEADS UP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message