Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:15 -0800 From: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Message-ID: <19990203114715.A27993@the.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>; from Mike Holling on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800 References: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800, Mike Holling wrote: > > a.out will be gone from FreeBSD as of 3.1, and is disabled by default in > > 3.0. This would be fine except for the 3rd party a.out binaries...like > > Netscape. One hopes Netscape will switch to ELF before a.out is gone > > (hah). > > I suspect that this decision will be reversed, or a huge majority of the > -stable crowd will stick with 2.2.8 forever. It's pretty unlikely that > everything can be recompiled for ELF that quickly. > > - Mike I have to agree with Mike here.. Especially when I am bringing a new box up to play with 3.0 while I have 2 happily running 2.2.8-STABLE TIA Ron -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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