Subject: misc/17985: WWW news entry for NetBSD/vax is broken
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/19/2002 10:57:42
>Number:         17985
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       WWW news entry for NetBSD/vax is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 18 18:58:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bang Jun-Young
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6F
>Organization:
Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
News on www.netbsd.org about switch to ELF of NetBSD/vax says:

	"NetBSD/vax is now using ELF as its native object file
	 format in -current. With the"

... and what?
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Guessing from "NetBSD/mac68k switches to ELF":

	"... COMPAT_AOUT_VAX kernel option, all your old a.out
	 binaries should still work. Note that a.out version of
	 ifconfig(8) and route(8) will not work due to some
	 structure alignment problems."

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: