> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > Hi, I probably have something simple not installed, but here's the story.
> > 
> > What I get with either build (1.3 or 1.4):
> > 
> > /usr/home/mac/setiathome-1.2.i386-unknown-netbsd1.4 $ ./setiathome 
> > No ld.so
> 
> The client is a.out format, but -current is ELF now... to run a.out
> binaries, you need to put the a.out ld.so and shared libs in
> /emul/aout/... (i.e. /emul/aout/usr/libexec/ld.so and
> /emul/aout/usr/lib/lib*.so.* from NetBSD 1.4.x)

Somebody wrote up a set of definitive "you must do these things" set
of steps for the a,out to ELF upgrade.  Could whoever did it repost them,
or better yet, put up an 'old a.out' package.  I've done a couple of these
upgrades and I'm not convinced I've done everything I should.