Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 12:26:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bradley M Keryan <> | Subject | Re: Dropping a.out support |
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Dropping a.out development doesn't seem to be as big of a deal as I thought. I just installed (the apparently ELF-only) ld.so-1.9.2 (which doesn't have ld.so, just ld-linux). I can still run a.out binaries, because ld-linux.so.1.9.2 works fine with ld.so.1.8.9. Just make sure you preserve the following files:
/lib/ld.so /lib/ld.so.1.8.9 and the contents of /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
Ignore my (stupid) post about having a separate interpreter/dynamic linker/loader: a.out and ELF already have separate linker/loaders.
I don't see any problem, as long as the old ld.so continues to function, as the a.out libraries and programs aren't going to change . . .
Brad Keryan keryan@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/user/keryan finger keryan@andrew.cmu.edu for my PGP public key
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