From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 15:28:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25727 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25721 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA22086; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980926152753.A22040@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:27:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Glenn Johnson , Greg Lehey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ie., a new user getting FreeBSD 3.0 from the CD when it is released. I am > pretty sure they will want to run Netscape and probably some other aout > precompiled binaries. How will this situation be handled? Should there be a > compatibility package of aout libraries? That would pretty much be the answer. Just like we have compat21, I guess we'll need compatX11aout. compatX11aout will need to take the latest a.out 3.0 X11 libs and repackage them so the tarball has them in lib/aout. And makesure you don't forget the "-C /usr/X11R6" argument to tar. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message