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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:16:23 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
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Subject: Re: netscape-4.07 can't work under FreeBSD-3.0-ELF with XFree86-ELF...
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Matthew Thyer wrote:

> To avoid having heaps of old a.out libraries lying around, I removed all
> my ports (except XFree86) using pkg_delete port-name so that when I ran
> "make aout-to-elf", it would only move the XFree86 libraries into the aout
> subdirectory.

Be very careful doing that though!  There are a distressingly
large number of ports that are broken on ELF systems, so check
the current port status before you nuke important applications.

-john


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