I think that was me, but I don't have that message any more.  I'm
certain it was archived, though.  Check the mailing list archives on
www.netbsd.org

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Dave Burgess
wrote:

> > 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.
> 

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