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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:43:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        lcremean@tidalwave.net, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Day After, initial reports. 
Message-ID:  <16893.904592605@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:31:17 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808311929270.342-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808311929270.342-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Doug
 Rabson writes:
>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 <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 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.

Until somebody implemented the code needed for us to dispose of code
which is "NWDV".

Poul-Henning

Ok, Ok:  "Not Wanted During Voyage"
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