Subject: Re: mvme68k switched to ELF object file format
To: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-mvme68k
Date: 12/09/2000 07:48:06
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:32:30AM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:

 > Although, I must admit that I *am* considering nuking the pathname
 > translation side of things. For folks upgrading, we can provide a
 > pre-compiled compatibility ld.so which looks up a.out shared libs in
 > something other than /usr/lib. The i386 port has already set a precedent
 > for this...

In fact, the a.out ld.so in 1.5 already does this (this is how a.out
compatibility is done on the i386 and SPARC).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>