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Received: from case.cyberspace.com (case.cyberspace.com [199.2.48.12]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA03435 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 12:42:49 -0700 Received: from Ender.cyberspace.com (root@PPP52-213.cyberspace.com [198.68.52.213]) by case.cyberspace.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA23825; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 12:41:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 12:42:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jared Roberts <root@dontmailhere.cyberspace.com> X-Sender: root@Ender.cyberspace.com Reply-To: Jared@cyberspace.com To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE (Linux): svgalib "soon" In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950903095107.1434F-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950903124023.115A-100000@Ender.cyberspace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > > additionally, if i want to build the aout format i put -b > > > i486-linuxaout on the CFLAGS line of the makefile. this appears to do > > > nothing as the library that comes out is still ELF. > > > > Did you make clean first? And are you adding "-m i386linux" to the > > LFLAGS line? > > i didn't do that. i thought that was necessary if you had a 386. > > here's something from the src/Makefile.elf > - ---- > # You might want to add -m386 here if you have a recently installed > # (486 configured) compiler on a 386. The only real difference is the > # generous alignment padding of function entry-points for the 486. > - ---- Alright, this was in the ELF-HOWTO, and is a _linking_ flag, not a compiling one. -m386 optimizes for 386/Pentium Byte alignment, where -m486 optimizes for the 486. In the linker -m i386linux was a flag that was mentioned for "compiling the kernel as a.out" in the howto file. I'm not sure exactly what it's purpose is... +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Jared Roberts | Ultima Dragons: Internet Chapter | | mailto:Jared@cyberspace.com | Timeless Dragon -==(UDIC)==- | | Jarobert@sparky.lkwash.wednet.edu +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Orion@media.mediawhse.com | Orion@IRC | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+