Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:56:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: root@isis.dynip.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I hear someone say Communicator 4.5 for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990129175614.E8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901282136.AAA13827@isis.dynip.com>; from root@isis.dynip.com on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:35:12AM %2B0300 References: <36AFD36C.456504C4@tci.com> <199901282136.AAA13827@isis.dynip.com>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 0:35:12 +0300, root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > Hi guys, > Like Greg said, FreeBSD is supporting aout binaries, but not for long. > If you have an ELF system, that means, Kernel is ELF, All binaries of > the system are ELF, and all newly compiled binaries, from ports, etc > are going to be ELF, but for a limited period of time, if you have an > old binary compiled when your system was aout, or if you got the binary > in aout format, you will be able to run it without noticing any > difference. > A point here worths mentioning, if you have a choice, select the ELF > binary, because SOON enough, FreeBSD will DUMP aout altogether, this > will make the system tighter, faster, and causing less headaches to > developers, but will be a period of CHAOS, when a specific binary stop > working then you find out it was an aout one. To clarify the situation: from the -hackers list: On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 16:48:20 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > The ability to run a.out binaries is not likely to go away in a hurry. > It's more likely that a.out support will be distributed as an add-on > component. > > What is likely to go away is support for *building*the*system* in a.out > format. In other words, there's nothing to worry about. > -- > - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. ~o .^. > ---------------------------- ___ o~ .00 ) > Static Email : osiris2002@yahoo.com /| o~ /)( > Bouncing Email : root@isis.dynip.com / | | \ > Web Site : http://isis.dynip.com:80 (Frames) ___/ | / \ > Anon FTP Site : ftp://isis.dynip.com:21 (anonymous) | /''___/ / | > Gopher Site : gopher://isis.dynip.com:70 | /'''/___/ | > Network News : isis.dynip.com (Read, Post, Xfer) __|/'''/ > Mailing Lists : majordomo@isis.dynip.com (public) > pgp key : finger root@isis.dynip.com Could you think out a shorter .sig? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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