Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[email protected]> "David O'Brien" writes: > : Please excuse my ignorance, but why does make aout-to-elf require the > : -CURRENT compiler to produce a.out binaries? > : > : make aout-to-elf moves a working set of a.out libraries to ---/lib/aout, > : so doesn't that cover the needs? > > No. make aout-to-elf builds a.out versions of everything first, then > uses them to build the elf versions.
Correct. Older compilers would not be able to generate elf targets, so we have to update the compiler first. The system actually makes a complete world first, because of arcane reasons better left unexplained, lest one would gradually become insane. For the details, man cthulhu(9). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [email protected] [email protected] "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
