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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:05:15 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <JULIAN@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: Curious minds .. etc
Message-ID:  <YXKo%2B0KPIarBTBSf@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <853f9dd2-4a19-7267-4be5-ffa9d6c7659a@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:07:47AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Several years ago (OK, maybe 12 years ago) I did an experiment where I
> unpacked a
> freebsd 1.1 (or maybe 2.0?) image into a subdirectory, and after installing
> various
> compat packagesand options and a.out support and changing MAX_PID to be
> 60000, I was able to
> chroot to it and do a "make world". Things were stupidly fast.
> 
> 
> Has anyone been able to do such a thing in recent years? One wonders what
> options one
> would need and what the oldest Version we could run in this way was..

Yes, I added support for a.out to amd64, and wrote man page which documents
all details that are relevant there, see aout(4).



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