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" -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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