Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:39:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: The future of a.out support? Message-ID: <19990129153941.M8473@freebie.lemis.com>
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Somebody just drew my attention to /usr/src/Makefile: # Unless -DNOAOUT is specified, a `make world' with OBJFORMAT=elf will # update the legacy support for aout. This includes all libraries, ld.so # and boot objects. This part of build should be regarded as # deprecated and you should _not_ expect to be able to do this past the # release of 3.1. You have exactly one major release to move entirely # to elf. It was my understanding that the kernel would continue to support a.out, and I think that's important. If FreeBSD can support SCO, Linux, Solaris, BSDI, NetBSD and OpenBSD, it seems important that it should also contain support for FreeBSD, even old, obsolete versions. May I assume that this is the case, and that the comment applies only to what ``make world'' builds? Even so, though, I think that it is important to provide a way to build the libraries and ld.so if necessary, though probably not in the world target. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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