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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Elfkit release 1.1 is now available
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, invalid opcode wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, John Polstra wrote:
> > WHAT ELSE WILL I NEED?
> > 
> >     * gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz, from any GNU site.
> >     * binutils-2.6.tar.gz, from any GNU site.
> >     * The sources for libc, from FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE.
> >     * The /usr/include tree from FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE.
> 
> So I need all this crap just to execute Linux ELF programs?!?! That's 
> like 8+ megs just for the source! If all I want to do is exceute Linux 
> ELF binaries, for instance, ls; do I even need Elfkit?
>
	This is what you would require to make a FreeBSD ELF Binary, not
to run Linux ELF Binaries.

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