From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 21:11:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07764 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:11:22 -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 VAA07739 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA23520; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980926211042.B23451@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:10:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Birrell 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: <19980926205749.A23451@nuxi.com> <199809270410.OAA22568@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809270410.OAA22568@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 02:10:36PM +1000 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 > When aout is no longer in use, it can be pruned. Once the executable format > is changed, and the old format dropped, what are you trying to keep > compatibility with? At some point you have to let go of the past. Programs I compiled back in 2.x that I don't have source for anymore. We can never drop support for runing a.out binaries. -- -- 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