From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 18 23:10:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27414 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:10:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27360 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA20681; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 08:08:31 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199809190608.IAA20681@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Minor nit in 3.0-19980916-SNAP: Missing /usr/lib/aout/libgcc.a In-Reply-To: <1395.906156884@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "Sep 19, 98 00:14:44 am" To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 08:08:31 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Minor nit in 3.0-19980916-SNAP (from current.freebsd.org): When you make > a new kernel, the "make depend" step wants an aout libgcc.a in order to > link genassym - but there is none in /usr/lib/aout (there *is* an ELF > format libgcc.a in /usr/lib). > > I copied /usr/lib/aout/libgcc.a from another (pre-ELF) 3.0 machine, and > that worked just fine. > See if /etc/objformat exists. It probably doesn't. Create it with something like this: echo "OBJFORMAT=elf" > /etc/objformat This should make the default object/binary format elf, which is what it should be for the SNAPS, because they are elf systems. Our release build system does not put it in yet... I think. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message