Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:

: On 7 Oct 2000, Shigeki Uno wrote:
: 
: : If I want to move a.out to ELF on mac68k platform according to following
: : document, is it possible ?  (There's no room for my HDD though. :-()
: 
: No.  1.5 will be distributing m68k platforms as a.out.  There is not enough
: system ELF support for m68k yet, so this will not work.
: 
: You don't need to worry about moving mac68k to ELF - a.out on NetBSd has all
: the features you could need from ELF.  The reason we are migrating them
: (gradually) is to adopt ELF as a standard that we can use on all
: architectures.


The reason I asked about ELF on mac68k relates to building Mozilla-M17.
I found a mail from mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu on tech-pkg@netbsd.org Mailing
List. 
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From: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
Subject: Re: mozilla 
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
cc: BSD Packages <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:18:35 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu


what machine is this on?

it is known to fail on a.out and also some non-(i386/ELF) systems.

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Greywolf wrote:

> Speaking of mozilla, mine won't build:

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Thanx.

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Shigeki Uno