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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:23:52 +0930."
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:00:43 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > I think the first step is to start getting some -current testers to
> > convert to ELF and pave the way for a more general effort.  Right now,
> > running a FreeBSD system 100% ELF is mostly just a theory.
> 
> What do you mean by "convert to ELF"?  I hope you don't mean a
> wholesale change.  I'd be interested in testing it (and the BSD/OS
> stuff, too, if I can find my BSD/OS 3.0 CD-ROM), and maybe building
> some packages in ELF instead of a.out, but I wouldn't want to change
> everything at the moment.

Well, I don't think that reasonable coverage can be obtained from
piecemeal testing so yes, I do mean a wholesale change (up to and
including the kernel).  This scenario is not out of the question for
those of us with hardware dedicated specifically to testing and so I'm
hoping that such testers will come forward and help John P. start
really testing the ELF toolchain support.

					Jordan