In article <local.mail.freebsd-current/[email protected]> you 
write:
>In message <[email protected]>, John Polstra writes:
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>Jordan K. Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'd personally be happy with an egcs that just did sensible things
>>> with ELF,
>>
>>Me too.  We _must_ not let a.out become a ball and chain.  We have
>>stressed over and over all along that we were not going to become a
>>dual-object-format OS.  That means we _must_ be willing to abandon
>>a.out support for new code.  We will keep the legacy a.out libraries
>>for old applications to link against, but we don't have to keep the
>>ability to generate new ones.  To do so would hold us back (_is_
>>holding us back) with very little to show for it.
>
>Wouldn't the first logical step be to stop generating the a.out libs
>in make world, and check in the "final version" like with the rest
>of the compat libs ?

How about getting profiling working for ELF kernels before
before completely abandoning a.out? 
--
Jonathan


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