On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 01:04:42PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > While looking at other things we came across ldconfig's a.out support, > which hasn't been used by anything in the FreeBSD base system in ~2 > decades. > > I know there are (or at least recently were) folks using a.out > binaries on contemporary FreeBSD. Most likely statically linked > proprietary software. I'd be curious to know if anyone is still using > this. > > As far as ldconfig goes I don't see the value in generating a.out > hints; if someone is using a.out shared libraries (from FreeBSD 2.x) > it seems that they can also just use FreeBSD 2.x ldconfig to generate > the hints file. Is there any reason we shouldn't deprecate ldconfig > a.out support? There is also ldd(1) to clean if doing such cleanup. I agree with the statement that if you need to do anything that requires ldd/ldconfig for a.out, you really need to have the chroot with FreeBSD 2.2.x world around.Received on Fri Mar 13 2020 - 19:56:18 UTC
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