From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 10:37: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B7F37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33CD43E6E for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84HaxVo018548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5/Submit) id g84HaxCK018545; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200209041736.g84HaxCK018545@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Richard Tobin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 In-Reply-To: <200209032232.XAA04151@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200209032232.XAA04151@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > So they need a C compiler that can generate a.out format .o files, and > a linker that can link a.out format .o files against an a.out format > executable. Not necessarily. There is always `objcopy', at least for static executables. The version we ship doesn't support any flavor of a.out, but that wouldn't be too difficult to fix if it solved this particular problem. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message