Somebody just drew my attention to /usr/src/Makefile: # Unless -DNOAOUT is specified, a `make world' with OBJFORMAT=elf will # update the legacy support for aout. This includes all libraries, ld.so # and boot objects. This part of build should be regarded as # deprecated and you should _not_ expect to be able to do this past the # release of 3.1. You have exactly one major release to move entirely # to elf.
It was my understanding that the kernel would continue to support a.out, and I think that's important. If FreeBSD can support SCO, Linux, Solaris, BSDI, NetBSD and OpenBSD, it seems important that it should also contain support for FreeBSD, even old, obsolete versions. May I assume that this is the case, and that the comment applies only to what ``make world'' builds? Even so, though, I think that it is important to provide a way to build the libraries and ld.so if necessary, though probably not in the world target. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
