From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 19:21:55 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 2807816A4CE; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:21:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A23943D46; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:21:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com (64-144-75-100.client.dsl.net [64.144.75.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0AJLqoa043087 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:21:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:21:59 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20050110142159.081ce32f@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <200501101419.47016.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050110103332.7dbc2f72@mobile.pittgoth.com> <41E2C641.40101@freebsd.org> <20050110184227.GA45771@ip.net.ua> <200501101419.47016.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Tom Rhodes cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Scott Long cc: arch@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org 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 19:21:55 -0000 On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:19:47 -0500 John Baldwin wrote: > 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. Thanks for the support John! :) -- Tom Rhodes