If you've got the space, you can get GCC and build it as an a.out binary;
problem is, as of 2.1.0 the kernel's only supposed to compile as ELF,
which means you would be trapped in the 2.0 series.
Last I checked Slackware recommends you don't bother trying to update a
non-ELF-install to an ELF-install, just get a recent distribution instead
(Slackware 3.1 or so) and re-install the whole thing. Pain in the @ss if
you've got a lot of local-installed software and user files, but a lot
less risky than the library-and-loader transplants needed to do the
upgrade. There used to be a README on it somewhere; I tried it and wound
up having to do a start-from-scratch.
Hope this helps...
Adam
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