Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? Message-ID: <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> References: <19991209163452O.shigeru@iij.ad.jp>
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Hi,
YAMAMOTO Shigeru <shigeru@iij.ad.jp>wrote:
> In a log of @src/Makefile, revision 1.230,
>
> o The legacy aout build has been removed.
>
> Why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current?
>
> Are we now living in the TRUE ELF world?
I also wonder why a.out support was removed from -current.
I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support
(a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. Some commercial
programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to
make a.out binaries.
Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find
out why we still have to need a.out support.
Thanks.
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