Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:31:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Day After, initial reports. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808311929270.342-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19980831133340.B15462@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 09:31:14AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > In article <12163.904569770@time.cdrom.com>, > > Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > > > > > No, no, yes. :) OK, I've set OBJFORMAT=aout in /etc/objformat now and > > > my kernels build much better, thanks. It *used* to be set to aout > > > before I ran the aout-to-elf target, that's all I can say. :-) > > > > No, you want OBJFORMAT=elf in /etc/objformat for an elf > > system. John B's other fix (changing BINFORMAT to OBJFORMAT in > > sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386) is the correct one, I believe. > > > > If you just can't get it working, then build your kernels like > > until the problem is solved: > > > > OBJFORMAT=aout BINFORMAT=aout make > > On another note, when will ELF kernels be ready? ELF kernels are dependant on the new bootloader. Right now, there would be no real benefit to an ELF kernel compared to an a.out kernel. They would both take up the same amount of memory and both support the same set of features. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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