From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 26 7: 9:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.sc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386ED37B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail8.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:08:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:33:11 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stripping a.out binaries Message-ID: <19990314093310.A561@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:48:24PM +0930 Content-Length: 973 Lines: 25 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can use 'strip -aout ' to strip it. As far as I know, there is currently no way to specify the executable format to 'install -s'. I haven't tried it, but you might be able to use the OBJFORMAT or OBJECT_FORMAT (not sure which form is correct) environment variable to make install DTRT for aout. On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:48:24PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I'm porting a utility which is distributed in a.out binary form, which > 'install -s' is choking over (File format not recognised). How can I strip(1) > an a.out executable, and can install(1) be fixed to DTRT? > > nftp: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable > > Kris > > ----- > (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its > productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter > of 1901. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message