Re: git: Kernel ELF: Restore legacy FreeBSD brand

["Sascha Wildner" <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 May 2011 22:37:16 +0200, Thomas Nikolajsen  
<thomas.nikolajsen@mail.dk> wrote:

> > commit cee191cabfed209fdad9972bd88be5b18e310361
> > Author: John Marino <draco@marino.st>
> > Date:   Wed May 18 01:10:13 2011 +0200
> >
> >    Kernel ELF: Restore legacy FreeBSD brand
> >
> >    During the rework of the kernel/ELF branding code, the FreeBSD brand
> >    was intentionally left off due to having an interpreter path of
> >    /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1, which is no longer built.
> >
> >    However, some users have been building old DragonFly 1.x servers up
> >    which still have that old rtld running, and are still running FreeBSD
> >    branded binaries.  For the sake of legacy, the FreeBSD brand is being
> >    restored.
>
> Thank you;
> I have a few old FreeBSD binaries, they execute again.
>
> Re. /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1, it is installed on my system,
> seems like they are changed on installworld (mtime changed);
> anyway they aren't removed on upgrade ('make upgrade'),
> so all hosts which has been source upgraded for a few years will have  
> file.

Why don't we build ld-elf.so.1 anymore? Can't we bring it back?

Sascha

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