Re: Any a.out users?

On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 13:34 -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 13:22, Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Could a.out support be a kernel config option that's off by
> > default?
> 
> Probably. That seems reasonable to me.
> 
> > And could its presence be indicated via sysctl in some way, so that
> > ldconfig could do a.out hints only if support for them is
> > available?
> 
> But why does ldconfig need to know about a.out files at all? Assuming
> this support still works we can just provide an a.out ldconfig along
> with a.out shared libraries.
> 

Oh, that makes sense... if the libs are conditionally installed, an
ldconfig_aout could also be conditionally installed.

-- Ian