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To: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 3.1: Link with static a.out lib?
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 20 Mar 1999 15:41:34 +0100
In-Reply-To: Charles Randall's message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:49:32 -0700"
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Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> writes:
> With the help of Michael E. Mercer [mmercer@ipass.net] I'm now using gcc's
> "-aout" option (which appears to be undocumented) but I still get the
> following message when compiling on 3.1R,
> 
> 	% gcc -aout test.c libInOldAoutFormat.a
> 	ld: crt0.o: No such file or directory
> 
> Again,
> 
> 1. Is this possible?

Yes.

> 2. Are there instructions for doing this?

What you wrote above should be enough. Are you sure your system wasn't
built with -DNOAOUT?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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