Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:42:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] Message-ID: <19970821084227.64768@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708202259.PAA21119@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 03:59:08PM -0700 References: <19970820102352.64876@lemis.com> <199708202259.PAA21119@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 03:59:08PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > What do you mean by "convert to ELF"? I hope you don't mean a > > wholesale change. > > Why not? Because I don't have the time at the moment. I'm too busy finding out why libc.so.3.0 doesn't build in -current, and thus blows my world out of the water. Of course, if somebody could show me (or make it plausible) that this would be possible without causing particular compatibility problems, I might change my mind. What I really don't understand is why a wholesale changeover should be necessary: I certainly hope that the new system will still be able to run a.out executables. > > I'd be interested in testing it (and the BSD/OS > > stuff, too, if I can find my BSD/OS 3.0 CD-ROM), and maybe building > > some packages in ELF instead of a.out, but I wouldn't want to change > > everything at the moment. > > Why not? See rule 1. Greg
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