From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 13:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20779 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:13:04 -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 NAA20760 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id GAA21673; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:24:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808312024.GAA21673@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: The Day After, initial reports. In-Reply-To: <12163.904569770@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 31, 98 06:22:50 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:24:24 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, 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 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Nope, I'm afraid those changes were innocuous. This is something > > > weirder, I think. The compiler is spitting out something which the > > > ELF assembler doesn't like, to wit: > > > > > > su-2.01# /usr/libexec/elf/as -v -o machdep.o machdep.s > > > > The kernel should be aout. Have you got OBJFORMAT=elf in /etc/make.conf > > or your environment or in /etc/objformat? > > 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. :-) It was probably set in /etc/objectformat, not /etc/objformat. I committed a patch to Makefile.i386. I'd be interested to know if that would have fixed the problem without setting /etc/objformat. -- 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