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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:51:47 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        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:  <19980613155147.39993@papillon.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <9806131934.AA25861@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>; from Marty Leisner on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 12:34:04PM -0700
References:  <19980531071501.Q20360@freebie.lemis.com> <9806131934.AA25861@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>

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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
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