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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:37:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Stephen Cooper <stephenc@ios.alphawest.com.au>, Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <19980624173703.M5023@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <003b01bd9b75$58bfb6c0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au>; from Stephen Cooper on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 07:27:50PM %2B0800
References:  <003b01bd9b75$58bfb6c0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au>

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On Fri, 19 June 1998 at 19:27:50 +0800, Stephen Cooper wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 June 1998 at 12:34:04 -0700, Marty Leisner wrote:
>>>> Yes, it's possible.  -CURRENT now supports ELF, and some people are
>>>> already running all-ELF systems.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make a minimal ELF system? (for starters,
>>> I'ld like to see hello, world statically linked in ELF).
>>
>> Sure, there's a way, but I don't have the details--I haven't been
>> following the discussion too closely.  It's probably worth waiting a
>> while before doing anything, say until the middle of next month.
>>
>>> Does 3.0-SNAPshot kernels support ELF by default?
>>
>> They support ELF, I believe, but they don't generate them by default.
>>
>>> I really would like a set of ELF libraries so I can cross-compile
>>> to freebsd (using gnu binutils).
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're saying here.  Do you want to compile FreeBSD
>> executables on other platforms?  You might want to discuss that with
>> Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org).
>
> Does this mean BSDI 3.0 elf binaries will run in FreeBSD 3.0 and above?

No, it doesn't mean that or the opposite either.  I expect they will,
though.

Greg
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