Re: a.out binaries die in -current recently

2000-10-09 Thread Will Andrews

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:41:07PM -0500, Mark Hittinger wrote:
 For the past couple of days the old style binaries don't work under -current,
 they simply core.

Well, my attitude would be "so what?".  But others may find a valid need
for a.out binaries *shrug*.

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Re: a.out binaries die in -current recently

2000-10-09 Thread Warner Losh

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Andrews writes:
: On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:41:07PM -0500, Mark Hittinger wrote:
:  For the past couple of days the old style binaries don't work under -current,
:  they simply core.
: 
: Well, my attitude would be "so what?".  But others may find a valid need
: for a.out binaries *shrug*.

netscape.

% file /usr/local/lib/netscape/navigator-4.72.us.bin 
/usr/local/lib/netscape/navigator-4.72.us.bin: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged 
dynamically linked executable
%

Warner


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Re: a.out binaries die in -current recently

2000-10-09 Thread Will Andrews

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:40:09PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
 netscape.

Nope.  BSDI Netscape bins don't require a.out libs.

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