From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 9:40:31 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 ED1E537B4DE for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C21C43E6E for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020903164015.YWSU19514.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:40:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA09518; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:29:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Peter Wemm Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 In-Reply-To: <20020903145511.3E62A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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? for me that would be enough. Can't speak for others though.. as on -hackers or somewhere.. maybe even on -announce " Announce: Planned removal of default support for a.out " and see if anyone screams :-) > > > 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