From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 19:04:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23698 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23639; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from freebsd.cybcon.com (pm3a-4.cybcon.com [205.147.75.133]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA18825; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:04:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14410.918095866@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:03:52 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, stormy@futuresouth.com, myke@ees.com, (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wont Netscape still work if you do ldconfig -aout (path to netscape libs) in 3.1 ? On 04-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I guess, yeah. We don't currently make the a.out stuff at all, > so I guess I'm still waiting for Peter (who's been maintaining them > up to now) to roll me a compat22 distribution. :) > > - Jordan > >> * 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. >> >> Will it be a sysinstall option? What would be the recommended way for >> ports to verify that they are available? (Check /usr/lib/aout/crt0.o?) >> >> I'd like to put in some safety belts so we won't see an influx of "why >> doesn't my netscape work?" messages when people install 3.1R.... >> >> Satoshi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 03-Feb-99 / Time: 19:02:43 FreeBSD 3.0 -Stable ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message