Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 23:45:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <3474.904891545@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 16:48:35 %2B1000." <199809040648.QAA05693@cimlogic.com.au>
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> I thought we were only going to do elf here. At least that's what _my_ > release is doing. 8-) Well, yes, but since we have OBJFORMAT set right at the top of the file and it formerly used to be set to "aout", I thought maybe we were trying to preserve the flexibility of doing it either way? :) I guess it doesn't matter in the long run since our a.out build abilities (at least in /usr/src) will undoubtedly atrophy to the point to where only ELF works and people make angry "you retro pedant!" noises every time somebody brings it up, so might as well bite the bullet now. Would you rather I just diked out anything referring to a.out in there? I certainly don't like the .if conditionals I just used - they generate an invalid conditional syntax if OBJFORMAT is undefined. - Jordan
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