Gary "D." Timuss <G.D.Timuss@uea.ac.uk>  wrote:
 > > From frank@fwi.uva.nl Fri Nov  1 08:57:52 1996
 > > Subject: Re: Help compiling i386 kernel pls.: Elf32_Ehdr
 > > 
 > > If you compile -current on the i386 , you need to have EXEC_AOUT and EXEC_SCRIPT
 > > by default in your config file. If you use COMPAT_LINUX, you'll also need
 > > EXEC_ELF.
 > 
 > (a) How did anyone _know_ this?  I didn't see anything on this list, 
 > /doc/CHANGES doesn't say anything, and options(4) says nothing either.  
 > I now see these are contained within the sample options files, but there
 > is no indication of their essentialness.

Now now... Granted doc/CHANGES should say something. I didn't check there. If
it indeed says nothing about this then Chris should be flayed as he used to 
whine about doc/CHANGES being updated... :)

However, from ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/current-users/*623:

 > From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
 > To: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
 > Message-ID: <603.844235923@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
 > 
 > .
 > .
 > .
 > If you use COMPAT_LINUX you will have to include:
 >         EXEC_AOUT
 >         EXEC_ELF32
 > 
 > f you use COMPAT_SVR4 you will have to include:
 >         EXEC_ELF32
 > 
 > If you use COMPAT_ULTRIX or COMPAT_OSF1 you will have to include:
 >         EXEC_ECOFF
 > .
 > .
 > .
 >