From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 29 11:45:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6117214D52 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-39.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.167]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23512; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:45:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA06301; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:45:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Library question/challenge Message-ID: <19990729114511.A6278@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990729074723.B47767@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19990729202434.A78719@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990729202434.A78719@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 08:24:35PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT 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 > I think, a guess, that make world without -DWANT_AOUT in conjunction with Unless you are trying to support current development of a.out binaries, there is little need to be useing "-DWANT_AOUT". All you want is suport for existing 2.2.x a.out binaries (since that is what Netscape is). Realize when building with -DWANT_AOUT, you are not creating the same libraries that were on 2.2.x, but rather libs with full 4.0-CURRENT features and content but in the a.out format. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message