Re: Curious minds .. etc

Reply: Søren_Schmidt : "Re: Curious minds .. etc"
In reply to: Julian Elischer : "Curious minds .. etc"
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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:05:15 UTC

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:07:47AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Several years ago (OK, maybe 12 years ago) I did an experiment where I
> unpacked a
> freebsd 1.1 (or maybe 2.0?) image into a subdirectory, and after installing
> various
> compat packagesand options and a.out support and changing MAX_PID to be
> 60000, I was able to
> chroot to it and do a "make world". Things were stupidly fast.
> 
> 
> Has anyone been able to do such a thing in recent years? One wonders what
> options one
> would need and what the oldest Version we could run in this way was..

Yes, I added support for a.out to amd64, and wrote man page which documents
all details that are relevant there, see aout(4).