From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 19 04:39:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA21804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zero.alphawest.com.au (dns.alphawest.com.au [203.14.124.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA21799 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephenc@ios.alphawest.com.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by zero.alphawest.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA25228; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:30:57 +0800 Received: from parang(203.14.124.50) by zero via smap (V2.0p2) id xma025226; Fri, 19 Jun 98 19:30:47 +0800 Received: from stephenc ([203.14.124.41]) by parang.alphawest.com.au (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02589; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:24:21 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from stephenc@ios.alphawest.com.au) Message-ID: <003b01bd9b75$58bfb6c0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au> Reply-To: "Stephen Cooper" From: "Stephen Cooper" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Marty Leisner" Cc: "Forrest Aldrich" , Subject: Re: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:27:50 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does this mean BSDI 3.0 elf binaries will run in FreeBSD 3.0 and above? -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey To: Marty Leisner Cc: Forrest Aldrich ; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 5:15 AM Subject: Re: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD) >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). > >Greg >-- >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message