Patch to add BeOS/x86 support
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N8TM@aol.com
Wed Jan 12 05:48:00 GMT 2000
In a message dated 1/12/2000 3:51:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk writes:
> the rest of the world considers the default
> name "a.out" to be a charming eccentricity from UNIX's ancient
> history. In my opinion this just makes us look silly.
>
> I suppose that there is a downside to changing the default name, in
> that it may break existing makefiles. However, most properly
> constructed makefiles explicitly set the name of the executable.
There's a spot in the standard testsuite, the first time it tries to run
u77-test, where it is broken because the executable is assumed to be ./a.out
regardless of the fact that we already have targets where this is not so.
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