From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 28 02:03:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21281 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20746 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03277; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:19:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth cc: John Birrell , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day In-Reply-To: <199808280145.JAA17381@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > George Michaelson wrote: > > > In more than one line: If you're one of those ports people, you'll have > > to try building the ports you maintain to find out what needs munging. > > Satoshi has asked for the elf switch to thrown sooner rather than later > > to give people as much time as possible to work on making ports elf > > aware. If you're discouraged by this, you don't need to convert to elf > > straight away, however you should be aware that as the ports are modified, > > elf will be the only supported format on 3.0-CURRENT and 3.0-RELEASE. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Oh bother. I bought a copy of XIG's Motif 2.0 a couple of months > ago. The CD has BSDI, FreeBSD & Linux binaries on it. The linux > binaries are ELF, but I don't know how deeply libXm et cetera delve > into linux's libc. I wonder if I could hit them for an upgrade when No, they don't have a new one. I just checked. The salesman wasn't sure if they'd tracked 2.2.5 or 2.2.6 with the last one, but don't hold your breath. > 3.0-RELEASE hits the street. Then there's the Xfree86 code to be > rebuilt for ELF format. > > > Stephen > -- > The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message