Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:34:34 +0700, Twatchai Saelao wrote:
> Hi
>  I have 1 application develope on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (a long time but still
> in use). I need to upgrade OS from 2.25 to 5.3 but Application can not
> run of this version.
> Message after call application is "cannot execute binary file". Please
> help/advise me. Thank you.

Newer versions of FreeBSD no longer support the old a.out binary file
format.  Try this:

  kldload aout

Then try again.  I've never tried this, so please report whether it
works or not.  If it doesn't, you can try building a kernel with the
option

options		COMPAT_AOUT

Greg
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