Re: Dropping a.out support

Bradley M Keryan (keryan@andrew.cmu.edu)
Fri, 2 May 1997 12:26:03 -0400 (EDT)

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
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