Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800, "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>> [Attribution lost.]
>> So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-)

> Nope.  You really need to think about the ISV's.  Why do you think
> Netscape is still a.out?  ISV's want to produce one binary that runs
> across multiple generations of FreeBSD.

Which, of course, is the whole point.  There is no forward
compatibility, only backward.  a.out binaries compiled on 4.0 simply
WILL NOT WORK on 3.x, unless they're in that tiny class of trivial
programs which do not invoke any sort of signal handling.

-GAWollman

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