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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:28:13 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: elf & compat 
Message-ID:  <199809230628.XAA00964@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:25:16 PDT." <1235.906524716@time.cdrom.com> 

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> > So a program which, when build a.out, require an a.out libgnumalloc,
> > will, when built ELF, *not* require an ELF libgnumalloc?
> 
> Uh, what?
> 
> > How does that work?
> 
> How does what work? :-)

Terry's brain, and the answer is that it doesn't.

What you're missing, Terry, is that you can't build a program that 
requires libgnumalloc.  You can *run* one, but you can't build one.

Since you can't build them, and you couldn't build them for a long time 
before we went ELF, you'll never want to run them (because they don't 
exist).

Please note carefully the scope of the above discussion before 
indulging in a meaningless display of pedantry.

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