Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:19:47 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout Message-ID: <200501101419.47016.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua> References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua>
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On Monday 10 January 2005 01:42 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:15:29AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200 > > > > > >Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >>>Hi, > > >>> > > >>>Would anyone care if I removed rtld-aout in CURRENT and eventually > > >>>in RELENG_5? It was unhooked over two years ago during the removal > > >>>of a.out support by peter. Reviewing the Makefile, it doesn't seem > > >>>to be built for any architecture. Patch URL is listed below but it > > >>>review shouldn't be needed. > > >>> > > >>>Comments? Yes/no/Tom go away? > > >> > > >>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a > > >>port first, then remove. > > > > > >Yep, I recall. And we see how that happened eh? :) > > > > > >Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken > > > > I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x, > > but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a > > certain gcc port). How does rtld-aout fit into this? Does this mean > > that we can only run static aout binaries now? > > The a.out (binary) version of ld.so is part of the misc/compat22 port > and src/lib/compat/compat22/ in RELENG_5. Which is probably where it belongs rather than being built from source. I think it should be ok to axe the source now. If anyone wants it to make a port they can always go get it from the Attic. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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