Removing rtld-aout

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 10 10:15:35 PST 2005


Tom Rhodes wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Would anyone care if I removed rtld-aout in CURRENT and eventually
>>>in RELENG_5?  It was unhooked over two years ago during the removal
>>>of a.out support by peter.  Reviewing the Makefile, it doesn't seem
>>>to be built for any architecture.  Patch URL is listed below but it
>>>review shouldn't be needed.
>>>
>>>Comments?  Yes/no/Tom go away?
>>>
>>
>>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a
>>port first, then remove.
> 
> 
> Yep, I recall.  And we see how that happened eh?  :)
> 
> Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken
> 

I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x,
but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a
certain gcc port).  How does rtld-aout fit into this?  Does this mean
that we can only run static aout binaries now?

Scott


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