From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 22 10:06:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27279 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-44-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27246 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA07862; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:03:20 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811221803.UAA07862@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: objcopy in /usr/libexec/aout/objcopy? In-Reply-To: <2457.911756110@brown.pfcs.com> from Harlan Stenn at "Nov 22, 98 12:35:10 pm" To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:03:16 +0200 (SAT) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message