From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 10:46:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28257 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28245 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:46:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08169; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: ELF/a.out interoperability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > I am using Xaccel X drivers with FreeBSD-2.2.7. These are a.out binaries. > I am wanting to upgrade to 3.0-RELEASE and would like all my X apps to be > linked against ELF libraries. What I want to know, is if I use the ELF > XFree86 libraries, will Xaccels a.out server work with them. Since this > is a specific senario, and I risk being flamed for not asking this of XiG, > will ELF libraries work with apps that are linked against a.out libraries? Library and binary formats must match. ELF and a.out programs can interoperate fine, but you can't link aout libs to an ELF object file. What this means is that you'll need to build your progra with the -aout flag until you get new libs from XiG. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message