Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:30:31 -0500 From: "Brian Haskin" <bhaskin@geocities.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: New aout-to-elf build failures. Message-ID: <000601be34f4$0789f9a0$0b00000a@brianjr.haskin.org> In-Reply-To: <14243.915081082@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:11 AM > To: Brian Haskin > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: New aout-to-elf build failures. > > > > Ok, as I'm not and haven't done any of the work I certainly > don't have any > > say, but just to add something that you might want to consider. > I've been > > thinking that it would be nice if the aout to elf build would > be supported > > till a little after the branch split. This would allow people following > > stable the option of source upgrades the whole way through. But > maybe this > > adds to much "cruft" to the start of the new stable branch? > > I don't mind them following -current up to and after the branch, but > they need to go ELF before that. It's just getting too difficult to > support both worlds and I no longer even have a 3.0/a.out box handy > here for testing such an environment. > > - Jordan > I must have stated this wrong. Let me pull in another of your messages: > > I started getting worked up over this about how I needed to get all my > > machines caught up (I run -STABLE all over the place here), then realized: > > -stable people don't need to care about any of the above right now > anyway. :-) > > - Jordan Ok, what you've stated above along with the additional thought that they will care come Jan. 16 or whenever it is that the 3.0 branch splits into a new stable and current branch is the point I was trying to make. To state it another way, will there be an easy (source not binary) route for people at the end off the 2.2-stable branch to get to the beginning 3.0-stable branch? Also I just upgraded to -current using the 12/24 snap and then cvsuping the rest of the way. I see via /etc/objformat that I'm, by default, using elf for the binary format. Are the elf boot blocks and kernel being used by default also; how do I tell? Brian Haskin haskin@ptway.com Home page: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/4333/ Always remember money is simply a level of indirection. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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