From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 14:39:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07730 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07722 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA13421; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:39:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Mike Holling cc: Stormy Henderson , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:32:57 PST." Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:39:54 -0800 Message-ID: <13417.918081594@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's no decision to reverse. We're already ELF and there's certainly no going back at this point - many of our ISVs are already switching their products over. The a.out libraries are still available, of course, and I have no problems running any of my reasonably (~1 year) up to date a.out stuff. - Jordan > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message