Removing rtld-aout

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:15:29AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 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?
> 
The a.out (binary) version of ld.so is part of the misc/compat22 port
and src/lib/compat/compat22/ in RELENG_5.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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