Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:16:13 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ld for loading dynamic library changed in 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199810231616.JAA27345@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810231452.HAA04643@george.lbl.gov> References: <199810231452.HAA04643@george.lbl.gov>
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In article <199810231452.HAA04643@george.lbl.gov>,
Jin Guojun (FTG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> wrote:
> P.S. By the way, there is another problem was found in 3.0 RELEASE,
> the aout/ld complains that the libX11.a has bag magic, even
> the file and objformat all confirmed the libX11.a is in aout format.
No. You are not using objformat correctly, as I noticed from the
output you sent me in private mail. It is not correct to type
"objformat filename" to get the format of the file. Your libX11.a is
almost certainly in ELF format.
As to the output of "file", there is very little difference between
a.out and ELF *.a files. The difference is in the *.o files that
they contain. And the "file" command doesn't look at those.
You are not going to like hearing this, but: you need to slow down,
take a deep breath, stop frantically trying things, and study some
manual pages. The problems you've described have all been due to your
confusion about which tools (a.out or ELF) you're using, and how those
tools work.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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