From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 11:34:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04068 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03920; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00458; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:31:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:31:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: lcremean@tidalwave.net cc: John Polstra , jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Day After, initial reports. In-Reply-To: <19980831133340.B15462@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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