On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > 
> > > > Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find
> > > > out why we still have to need a.out support.
> > >
> > > The port has nothing to do with building a legacy a.out world and
> > > consequently works fine (yes, I tested it :-)
> > 
> > Not really. You have to have a.out crt0.o and friends to be able to link
> > it. You probably have some old versions around in your system, but they
> > are not built by "world" target. Hence, they are not a part of binary
> > distrib.
> 
> Yes, I have c++rt0.o in /usr/lib/aout. If I didn't have it, I would be
> given directions on how to get it (from the port):
> 
> 1. extract /usr/src/lib (distribution files: src/slib.??)
> 2. cd /usr/src/lib/csu/i386
> 3. make depend
> 4. make OBJFORMAT=aout clean all install

True. But this adds a dependency for this port on the src/lib tree. I was
thinking about average people that have binary distribution + kernel
sources. They are screwed.

Andrzej Bialecki

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