From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 2 18:53:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA4937B405; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts15.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F8243E3B; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020903015317.KDBT18984.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 21:53:17 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g830dbX75176; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:39:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008501c252ec$b38320f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Juli Mallett" , Cc: "Bruce Evans" , "Peter Wemm" , "Jake Burkholder" References: <20020903005911.V3848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020902193842.GA49786@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020902130333.A60287@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 21:53:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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? Sorry, I didn't mean what I said. I meant what Juli suggested (support for compat2x) but removing native 5.x support for a.out, which will help "clean up" some things in the tools chain. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message