Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:10:05 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: rward@netcom.ca Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout-to-elf Message-ID: <199810120210.MAA28539@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <000101bdf570$9a21f1a0$97176c18@blade.v-wave.com> from Ryan Ward at "Oct 11, 98 05:41:00 pm"
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Ryan Ward wrote: > I think I had some problems with my system, being partially aout and elf. Is > there a way to make sure that my system is all elf vs aout? Besides doing Erm, if you haven't hacked things, your system should handle a mixture of elf and aout things. The upgrade procedure clearly flags which stages it has done (look in /usr/obj). > aout-to-elf? When i did the aout-to-elf it broke in a few places. Maybe my > system was already completely elf? Who knows, but I had problems with my > make world with current and thought that this was the problem. If you had not upgraded, a simple `make world' should have worked, subject to the endless breakages caused by developers including a new boot loader in the build at a time when there is supposed to be a feature freeze. This is not supposed to be happening, regardless of any "OK'd by jkh" claims, IMHO. It's not as though the bootloader will be enabled for the release! If you _had_ upgraded, /etc/objformat would contain OBJFORMAT=elf, and typing objformat would show that the system has defaulted to elf. On a system in that state, setting OBJFORMAT=aout in your environment or in /etc/objformat and doing a `make world' would install binaries in aout format, without updating the elf libraries. Conversely, setting OBJFORMAT=elf and doing a `make world' would install elf binaries again. That's how it is supposed to work. When the tree builds, that is. Sigh. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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