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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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