From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 19:01:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01995 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01990 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:00:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23352; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:58:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA02437; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:57:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810201957.UAA02437@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: Brian Somers , Eric Ken Lin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! I'm having ELF interpreter problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:28:24 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:57:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > Don't download ports from ports/, use ports-stable/. > > > > > > The ports/ ports are ELFed for 3.0. > > > > They should continue to work for pre-3.0-RELEASE systems though. > > I've run into ports that aren't backwards-compatible, I think. If you > want an example I'll try to find one. Definitely... There was a BROKEN_ELF variable added for builds, but no BROKEN_AOUT specifically because an Elf patch should never break for a.out. > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message