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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!nadia.stgt.sub.org!delos.stgt.sub.org!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Undocumented switches? pre-1.1 binaries executable w/ 1.1? References: <CSHAKER.94Apr25150312@shaker-bsd.cisco.com> <STARK!GENE.94Apr26223518@stark.uucp> Organization: private FreeBSD site Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:44:58 GMT Message-ID: <CozLnC.C91@luva.stgt.sub.org> Lines: 24 In article <STARK!GENE.94Apr26223518@stark.uucp>, Gene Stark <stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote: >In article <CSHAKER.94Apr25150312@shaker-bsd.cisco.com> cshaker@shaker-bsd.cisco.com (Christopher J. Shaker) writes: > >> When I've attempted to build Gnu emacs 18.59 from sources that built and ran >> on FreeBSD 1.0.2, I got an error about '__DYNAMIC' being undefined. So, I [...] >You need to also add the undocumented -Z option to LD_SWITCH_MACHINE. >This causes the linker to produce old format executables. The Emacs >dump code cannot properly dump an executable in the new format. Woah, I was sure to encounter "undocumented features (?)" only in MS-DOS, but not here in *nix land :-( BTW (one stupid qustion), does FreeBSD-1.1 will be able to execute old 1.0 (not dynamically linked) binaries (or have I to recompile *all* those megabytes of old stuff)? Bye, -Michael -- ------------------------------+------------------------------ Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org ------------------------------+------------------------------