From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 20:35:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02639 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02629 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA22452; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:41:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809270341.NAA22452@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) In-Reply-To: <19980926195540.A23068@nuxi.com> from David O'Brien at "Sep 26, 98 07:55:40 pm" To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:41:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > Hmm, are you really planning to put them in /usr/X11R6/lib/compat rather > > than /usr/X11R6/lib/aout? > > I would vote for /usr/X11R6/lib/compat to follow our current practice > with compat21. As we can view them not as a.out libs, but the libs you > need to run an GUI binary compiled on a 2.x box. The upgrade procedure will move aout X11R6 libs to /usr/X11R6/lib/aout. I don't think that /usr/X11R6/lib/compat is suitable, for the same reason that /usr/lib/compat is for elf compatibility libraries. We want to have aout things partitioned so that they can be pruned later. Get 'em out of the way and go elf! -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message