Any a.out users?
Ian Lepore
ian at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 13 17:43:13 UTC 2020
On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 13:34 -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 13:22, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Could a.out support be a kernel config option that's off by
> > default?
>
> Probably. That seems reasonable to me.
>
> > And could its presence be indicated via sysctl in some way, so that
> > ldconfig could do a.out hints only if support for them is
> > available?
>
> But why does ldconfig need to know about a.out files at all? Assuming
> this support still works we can just provide an a.out ldconfig along
> with a.out shared libraries.
>
Oh, that makes sense... if the libs are conditionally installed, an
ldconfig_aout could also be conditionally installed.
-- Ian
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