From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 5:18:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF66D155F1 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 05:18:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id C5ED02DC09; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:19:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 90C737811; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:16:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0A410E10; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:16:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:16:25 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? In-Reply-To: <384F8633.F40337BC@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 On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > 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 :-) Not really. You have to have a.out crt0.o and friends to be able to link it. You probably have some old versions around in your system, but they are not built by "world" target. Hence, they are not a part of binary distrib. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message