From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 2 13: 3:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 3ED9A37B400; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:03:33 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Bruce Evans , Peter Wemm , Jake Burkholder Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 Message-ID: <20020902130333.A60287@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020903005911.V3848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020902193842.GA49786@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020902193842.GA49786@dragon.nuxi.com>; from dev-null@NUXI.com on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:38:42PM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: David O'Brien [ Data: 2002-09-02 ] [ Subjecte: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 ] > 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". I *hope* nobody is suggesting to rip out the ability to use compat22, let alone the a.out execution facilities in the Kernel. Though maybe making those optional would be good? -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message