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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:10:00 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include asnames.h 
Message-ID:  <199810031810.LAA10150@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 12:06:29 MDT." <199810031806.MAA25535@mt.sri.com> 

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> >   Two new C symbols were added to apm_setup.s but not put into
> >   asnames.h.  That broke builds of ELF kernels.  *Whap*.
> 
> This was done in June, *LONG* before ELF was even considered a
> possibility.  Somehow this sort of thing has to change, since it's not
> at all obvious that something needs to be added here (unless you get an
> error after the fact and you know asnames is the right place to look.)

It will become obvious soon, when ELF kernels are the default.  It's
only non-obvious currently because not many people build ELF kernels.

Eventually we should be able to get rid of this nonsense, once a.out
kernels are no longer supported.

John


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