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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp>
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Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900."
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On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote:

> 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.

Are you sure?  Any a.out binaries for FreeBSD are going to be desgined
to work with 3.x or older.  So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is
silly. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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