In article <19990605174227.A428@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us (Mason Loring Bliss) writes:
>On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:12:43AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to remember precisely how I did it...  I think Andrew's
>> instructions are pretty much on the ball.  But you need to do one
>> very important thing, first...
>> 
>> You *must* have a kernel w/ COMPAT_AOUT, and you *must* have an
>> /emul/aout populated with your shared libraries and dynamic linker:
>
>Hm. One thing that's sort of spooked me so far... When I have a kernel
>with COMPAT_AOUT in it, it looks like my "stuff" sees /emul/aout in place
>of what I'd expect it to see. To wit, "ls /usr" shows me the contents of
>/emul/aout/usr, not the actual contents of /usr. Is this to be expected,
>and will I run into any problems with this being the case?
>
>So, the updated list of stuff to do, in order:
>
>Run kernel with COMPAT_AOUT and a populated /emul/aout

Save the compilers and the tools as the makemeELF script does,
so you can recover.

>BOOTSTRAP_ELF=YES >> /etc/mk.conf
>cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin && make clean && make depend && make && make install
that is a bit of overkill.
>cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/libbfd && make clean && make depend && make && make install
>cd /usr/src/lib/csu && make clean && make depend && make && make install
>OBJECT_FMT=ELF >> /etc/mk.conf
>LDSTATIC=-static in /etc/mk.conf
>cd /usr/src && make build

Again a bit of overkill to build everything static.
if you make libc install it and then make ld_elf.so and install it, you
should be able to make build (I think).

>Is this correct? Also, a newbieish question, but where do I want to set
>and unset DESTDIR in this process to make sure stuff is working?

>Thanks in advance for the additional prods, pointers, and reassurances. :)
>Also, note that I have a recent backup, so shooting myself in the foot is
>acceptable, if not particularly desired.

I don't know, but make sure you set DESTDIR=/.. so that you install in the
actual root as opposed to the emul root...

christos