From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 16 22:54: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D89237B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2F443E6A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816D62A7D6 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: a.out support in base tree moving to ports Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:54:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020917055404.816D62A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As threatened before 3.0-RELEASE, the deprecated a.out bits have been (mostly) surgically removed. OK, so we threatened to do it right after 4.0-RELEASE and it's a bit late, but it has finally been done. The first stages of moving them to self contained ports has begun. The toolchain components and a gcc configured to avoid triggering the bugs and quirks in the old assembler and linker will make up the packages. We do have a few remnants left (a.out parts of ldd, ldconfig etc as well as some includes) but they'll be rounded up and packaged up as a standalone package over the next few weeks. Note: kernel support for executing a.out binaries remains in the base system. Be sure to either specify 'options COMPAT_AOUT', or do a 'kldload aout' to load it at runtime if you forgot to include it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message