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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: The future of a.out support?
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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
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