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Date:      Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:03:16 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: objcopy in /usr/libexec/aout/objcopy?
Message-ID:  <199811221803.UAA07862@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <2457.911756110@brown.pfcs.com> from Harlan Stenn at "Nov 22, 98 12:35:10 pm"

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Harlan Stenn wrote:

> I did a "make buildworld ; make installworld" first.
> 
> Then I updated whatever had changed in src/etc, and rebuilt and installed a 
> new kernel.
> 
> /usr/libexec/aout/ contains:
> 
> ar             gdb            nm             size           strip
> as             ld             ranlib         strings

[Context restored:]

> > I thought it would be a good idea to also upgrade /stand/sysinstall, and in 
> > doing so the make died because /boot was empty.  I went in to /usr/src/sys/
> > boot/i386 and tried a make there, which died as follows:
> > 
> >  objcopy -S -O binary boot1.out boot1
> >  objcopy: could not exec aout/objcopy in /usr/libexec: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Sure enough, while there are a number of files in /usr/libexec/aout/, 
> > objcopy is not one of them.
> > 
> > What did I miss?

Most of the new boot code needs OBJFORMAT=elf.

Sysinstall requires only boot0; and this can be built in an aout world
as well.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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