Removing rtld-aout

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 10 11:40:59 PST 2005


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:21:41 -0800
Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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?
> >
> 
> does this stop me from running 2.2.1 or 1.1.5 binraies?
> (probably not but..)

No, as has already been pointed out:

The code for this utility is broken on CURRENT + 5.3;
See src/lib/compat/compat22/ or the misc/compat22 port.

:)

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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