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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:55:11 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3 
Message-ID:  <20020903145511.3E62A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209030012060.851-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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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


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