From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 25 20:10:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05653 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 20:10:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05647 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 20:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18048; Mon, 25 May 1998 20:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199805260310.UAA18048@austin.polstra.com> To: John Birrell cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 15:16:08 +1000." <199805250516.PAA19101@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 20:10:28 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > That's why everybody who really scrutinizes ld decides it would be > > a lot easier to throw it out and switch to ELF. > > Oh, so _that_ is the reason for switching to ELF. Chuckle. It solves > the old ld problems. Just a matter of perspective, I guess. 8-) Well, seriously, for me at least that's a large part of the motivation. Unfortunately, the binutils linker isn't, uh, what you'd call "transparent," either. But at least it has plenty of users and plenty of maintainers. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message