From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 3:30: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F70C155CB for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:30:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA28782; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:16:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:16:45 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? In-Reply-To: <384F860A.499A29EA@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried to build -current tonight with the following uncommented in /etc/make.conf: # # If you want the "compat" shared libraries installed as part of your normal # builds, uncomment these: # #COMPAT1X= yes #COMPAT20= yes #COMPAT21= yes #COMPAT22= yes #COMPAT3X= yes # and it didn't work, so I re-commented them. Probably no point in having them anyway. Annelise On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Motoyuki Konno wrote: > > > I also wonder why a.out support was removed from -current. > > a.out support has not been removed. We just don't do any legacy a.out > building. > > > I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support > > (a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. > > For this, the proper compat distribution should/can be installed. > > > Some commercial > > programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to > > make a.out binaries. > > No, we only have to *run* them. This we do. If Netscape were to compile > on -current, they would have an ELF version... > > > Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find > > out why we still have to need a.out support. > > The port has nothing to do with building a legacy a.out world and > consequently works fine (yes, I tested it :-) > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl > SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ > The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message