Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:19:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make aout-to-elf on -current? Message-ID: <371819E8.3A8E0432@newsguy.com> References: <19990416202430.C70132@nuxi.com> <199904160654.AAA07198@harmony.village.org> <199904170422.WAA12900@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <19990416202430.C70132@nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : Please excuse my ignorance, but why does make aout-to-elf require the > : -CURRENT compiler to produce a.out binaries? > : > : make aout-to-elf moves a working set of a.out libraries to ---/lib/aout, > : so doesn't that cover the needs? > > No. make aout-to-elf builds a.out versions of everything first, then > uses them to build the elf versions. Correct. Older compilers would not be able to generate elf targets, so we have to update the compiler first. The system actually makes a complete world first, because of arcane reasons better left unexplained, lest one would gradually become insane. For the details, man cthulhu(9). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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