From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 19:19:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A9716A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104F643D31 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 21792 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2005 19:19:12 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2005 19:19:11 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.243] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0AJJ64i011750; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:19:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:19:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501101419.47016.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Scott Long cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: arch@FreeBSD.org cc: Tom Rhodes Subject: Re: Removing rtld-aout X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:19:14 -0000 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 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org