Removing rtld-aout

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:19:47 -0500
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the support John!  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes