Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:17:13 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <15359.920308633@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:09:57 PST." <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com>
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In message <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >In article <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com>, >Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote: >> >> I'd personally be happy with an egcs that just did sensible things >> with ELF, > >Me too. We _must_ not let a.out become a ball and chain. We have >stressed over and over all along that we were not going to become a >dual-object-format OS. That means we _must_ be willing to abandon >a.out support for new code. We will keep the legacy a.out libraries >for old applications to link against, but we don't have to keep the >ability to generate new ones. To do so would hold us back (_is_ >holding us back) with very little to show for it. Wouldn't the first logical step be to stop generating the a.out libs in make world, and check in the "final version" like with the rest of the compat libs ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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