From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 5:49:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0847315616 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 05:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11w3w8-0000Q3-00; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:48:48 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA58918; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:48:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <384FB348.2AABDE76@scc.nl> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 14:48:56 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > 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. Yes, I have c++rt0.o in /usr/lib/aout. If I didn't have it, I would be given directions on how to get it (from the port): 1. extract /usr/src/lib (distribution files: src/slib.??) 2. cd /usr/src/lib/csu/i386 3. make depend 4. make OBJFORMAT=aout clean all install -- 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