From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 3 12:25:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03729 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03723 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00428 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:27:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:27:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jt cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aout-to-elf Conversion In-Reply-To: <199901031516.HAA10195@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Would converting a.out to elf at the same time you upgrade to 3.0 need the boot blocks installed ? or would the system still boot up after upgrade ? Any faq on this or will there be ? I don't see much info on the boot blocks. hometeam@techpower.net --We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd-- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owEBqwBU/4kAlQMFADRCxNWhsddKSTR+6QEBelED/jzeC3btZfqSdIfrNoCgwUJJ iNQ33UQoMyJ2ygkfl72xP5J79yml/F4P73GnNaDVbaMOmOG2NNAi5ElE73wRh54U 17kH+n5XnYeqekV8T2TG2Q6ex3UotXPyZ1vvrCrSxapOz6a4hh0GQeA55rcwLy2W ROHwxfvaVsrX5iVOkRoerBFiC21lc3NhZ2UudHh0AAAAAA== =jCvF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > I'm planning to upgrade a number of 2.2.8 systems to 3.0 or what ever > is out at the time that I get around to doing it. If at all possible I > would like to convert to ELF at that time too. I have a number of > Motif applications. The Motif shared libraries are in a.out format. > My questions are: > > 1. Will the Motif applications, using the a.out format shared libraries > that came with the Motif products continue to work on an ELF system? > > 2. If #1 is true, if I would need to re-compile any of the Motif > applications, can I build an ELF binary that will use the a.out > shared libraries? Or should the applications be statically linked? > > 3. Lesstif may be an answer. Any thoughts on this? > > 4. If none of the above are true, I suppose I would need to look for > alternative applications -- or compile them on a Linux system and > run them on FreeBSD? This however doesn't make much sense, as > vendors > like Netscape have probably asked the same questions and I suspect > that > they may have a solution of their own. > > I'm in a bit of a hurry this morning, so I haven't thought this note > completely through and may have missed something. > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca > ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca > Province of BC > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message