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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:24:19PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > I thought it was part of the plan to drop all traces of a.out support in
> > 5.x.  Am I wrong?
> 
> We should be *very* careful to accurately describe what is being
> suggested.
> 
> I believe it is that 5.x a.out binaries not be supported.  However, 2.x
> a.out binaries will be supported.  This is different thatn "drop all
> traces of a.out support".

yes binary support will remain.. if you need to generate new ones (?)
unpack a 2.2.6 system into a chroot tree (jail?) and make it there :-)



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