From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 18:15:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25554 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25538 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21069; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:45:07 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA20979; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:44:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981013104443.R21983@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:44:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.x (a.out) to 3.x (ELF) compatibility References: <199810121739.MAA22168@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810121739.MAA22168@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:39:24PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 12 October 1998 at 12:39:24 -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Just wondering if upgrading to 3.x means all my old a.out binaries (ports, > etc.) must be recompiled to ELF? No. 3.X will compile to ELF by default (though you can change this, too, if you really want), but it will run all old a.out executables, including most of my old BSD/386 1.0 binaries. Currently there is no provision for loading a.out and ELF relocatables to a single binary. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message