From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 9:18: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CC5154A2 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22914; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:17:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA15361; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:17:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Polstra Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:09:57 PST." <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:17:13 +0100 Message-ID: <15359.920308633@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >In article <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com>, >Jordan K. Hubbard 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