Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:31:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209030930270.851-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020903145511.3E62A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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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? As long as I can set things up so that a chroot to an environment full of 2.2.6 binaries will still work, then I can still support sites with embedded 2.2.6 based things.. Others may find this a requirement too. > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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