Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:29:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 19980921-BETA: more comments Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809221628280.7544-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <19980922193953.B24869@rumba.enst.fr>
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uh :) that's because the packages are just pre-compiled binaries, most are done in a.out to support 2.2.x, in fact i don't know of a ELF package made so far. if anyone wants to do me a ddd-3.0 in ELF with motif.... mmm mmm good :) thank you, Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Another small problem with the installed configuration: all the > distribution is in ELF format, but the default configuration seems to > generate a.out executables when installing packages. > > For example I installed bash-2.02 through the standard GNU procedure, > and I got the following (I noticed it because "size" at the end of the > bash compilation failed): > > fbdell# file bash > bash: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped > fbdell# size bash > /usr/libexec/elf/size: bash: File format not recognized > -- > Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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