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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 07:24:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Josh2 Lists <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Subject:   Re: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990512072455.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2660.926501994@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On 12-May-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 May 1999 00:46:25 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> If you are doing it with current -stable sources, you need to define
>> WANT_AOUT
>> (sp?) to true in /etc/make.conf and make world again.  That oughta get you
>> the
>> aout bits you need in /usr/lib/aout.
> 
> I take it the aout bits installed will be from the compat22's uuencoded
> libraries, not compiled on the build machine, yes?

Nope, the WANT_AOUT forces them to be compiled as part of the world build. 
That is they only way I know of thus far to build crt0.o and friends which are
needed for linking aout executables.

> Ciaol,
> Sheldon.

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