Re: David Engle is right + Possible gotcha...

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> First, David Engle was 100% correct --- we don't necessarily need to patch
> the kernel sources to be compilable in elf because you can still compile
> the kernel as a.out just by doing: 
> 
> PATH=/usr/i486-linuxaout/bin:$PATH make [whatever]
> 
> I'm assuming he planned it that way.  If he didn't, he shouldn't admit it. 

I wasn't thinking of the kernel, but just having to change the PATH
was a goal.  I never liked having to invoke gcc and ld with special
options.

David
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