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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: aout gdb in 3.x
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> How does one compile a version of GDB that can read a.out files?
> I know there is a way of doing it but I have totoally failed to work
> out how to do so.

I think you can do this by changing src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/Makefile.
Change:

	CFLAGS += -DFREEBSD_ELF

to set FREEBSD_AOUT instead.

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