Removing rtld-aout

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 10 January 2005 01:42 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:15:29AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:06:49 +0200
> > >
> > >Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0500, 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?
> > >>
> > >>Rumours were to make it (and a bunch of other a.out remnants) a
> > >>port first, then remove.
> > >
> > >Yep, I recall.  And we see how that happened eh?  :)
> > >
> > >Note to whoever makes it a port: this is broken
> >
> > I thought that we still supported running aout binaries in 5.x and 6.x,
> > but we didn't support compiling them anymore (except possibly via a
> > certain gcc port).  How does rtld-aout fit into this?  Does this mean
> > that we can only run static aout binaries now?
>
> The a.out (binary) version of ld.so is part of the misc/compat22 port
> and src/lib/compat/compat22/ in RELENG_5.

Which is probably where it belongs rather than being built from source.  I 
think it should be ok to axe the source now.  If anyone wants it to make a 
port they can always go get it from the Attic.

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