From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 0: 1: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.rim.or.jp (p84b10a.kofu.ap.so-net.ne.jp [210.132.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF65E14BD6 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 00:01:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp) Received: from tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp (tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp [192.168.11.8]) by snipe.rim.or.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id RAA08360 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id RAA01655 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? X-Mailer: mh-e on Mule 2.3 / Emacs 19.34.1 References: <19991209163452O.shigeru@iij.ad.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, YAMAMOTO Shigeru wrote: > In a log of @src/Makefile, revision 1.230, > > o The legacy aout build has been removed. > > Why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current? > > Are we now living in the TRUE ELF world? I also wonder why a.out support was removed from -current. I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support (a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. Some commercial programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to make a.out binaries. Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find out why we still have to need a.out support. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motoyuki Konno mkonno@res.yamanashi-med.ac.jp (Univ) motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp (Home) motoyuki@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Project) Yamanashi Medical University http://www.freebsd.org/~motoyuki/ (WWW) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message