From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 7:55:27 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 EEFBB37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871F143E42 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E62A2A7D6; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020903145511.3E62A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> 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 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > This is NOT a toolchain issue he is talking about, but a kernel one. > > Please forget all about the toolchain issue. It is a non-issue. I and > > kan are the only ones that it has inconvinced. Everyone else has been > > able to totally ignore it. I'll probably do something about it next > > week. > > > I think that the ability to run 2.2.6 binaries should remain. So, you could live with 'options COMPAT_AOUT' or 'kldload i386_aout' or something like that? > the ability to generate them or even debug them > can be almost completely removed.. > there are always other ways to do that.... > (e.g. boot 2.2.6 in a vmware machine or run them in a > chroot) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message