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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:07:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Cc:        deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, jdp@austin.polstra.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils
Message-ID:  <199703281607.JAA03342@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199703281557.QAA06713@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Mar 28, 97 04:57:46 pm

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> On a related note, can anyone tell me if I can use objcopy to
> change Linux (static) elf libraries into FreeBSD libraries?

Not if the linraries implement system calls, or call system calls
and depend on machine specific behaviour differences, or access
devices and depend on driver specific behaviour which differes
between the OS's.


> If not, is there an alternative?

Create a Linux cross environment and use them as Linux libraries,
running the binaries under the Linux ABI.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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