Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:42:27 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout Message-ID: <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050110180649.GA45481@ip.net.ua> <20050110131111.6446bd24@mobile.pittgoth.com> <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:15:29AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Tom Rhodes wrote: >=20 > >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200 > >Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > >>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Would anyone care if I removed rtld-aout in CURRENT and eventually > >>>in RELENG_5? It was unhooked over two years ago during the removal > >>>of a.out support by peter. Reviewing the Makefile, it doesn't seem > >>>to be built for any architecture. Patch URL is listed below but it > >>>review shouldn't be needed. > >>> > >>>Comments? Yes/no/Tom go away? > >>> > >> > >>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a > >>port first, then remove. > > > > > >Yep, I recall. And we see how that happened eh? :) > > > >Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken > > >=20 > I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x, > but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a > certain gcc port). How does rtld-aout fit into this? Does this mean > that we can only run static aout binaries now? >=20 The a.out (binary) version of ld.so is part of the misc/compat22 port and src/lib/compat/compat22/ in RELENG_5. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB4syTqRfpzJluFF4RArrrAJ9vyt8FDV3q1CDpUZCAqk7p/lhSkQCfQdzP OHgU8smRWlupu5BSkDz+itw= =1LVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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