From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 3 10:58:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24862 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [156.46.203.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24662 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (wbiS11.westbend.net [156.46.203.26]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00872; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:57:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <00ed01be374a$b2449820$1acb2e9c@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group" , References: <199901031516.HAA10195@cwsys.cwsent.com> Subject: Re: Aout-to-elf Conversion Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:51:37 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.1012.1001 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.1012.1001 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group > I'm planning to upgrade a number of 2.2.8 systems to 3.0 or what ever > is out at the time that I get around to doing it. If at all possible I > would like to convert to ELF at that time too. I have a number of > Motif applications. The Motif shared libraries are in a.out format. > My questions are: > > 1. Will the Motif applications, using the a.out format shared libraries > that came with the Motif products continue to work on an ELF system? > Yes, they will continue to work, as long as you don't re-compile them to ELF, unless you have an ELF Motif. > 2. If #1 is true, if I would need to re-compile any of the Motif > applications, can I build an ELF binary that will use the a.out > shared libraries? Or should the applications be statically linked? > ELF binaries can't use a.out libraries. > 3. Lesstif may be an answer. Any thoughts on this? > If it can be compiled as an ELF binary then it should work. > 4. If none of the above are true, I suppose I would need to look for > alternative applications -- or compile them on a Linux system and > run them on FreeBSD? This however doesn't make much sense, as > vendors > like Netscape have probably asked the same questions and I suspect > that > they may have a solution of their own. > > I'm in a bit of a hurry this morning, so I haven't thought this note > completely through and may have missed something. > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca > ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca > Province of BC > Scot P.S. Check the Current Mailing list archive as this was discussed there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message