From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 13:29:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21824 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21818 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA07565; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:29:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:29:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Pierre Beyssac cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 19980921-BETA: more comments In-Reply-To: <19980922193953.B24869@rumba.enst.fr> 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 uh :) that's because the packages are just pre-compiled binaries, most are done in a.out to support 2.2.x, in fact i don't know of a ELF package made so far. if anyone wants to do me a ddd-3.0 in ELF with motif.... mmm mmm good :) thank you, Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Another small problem with the installed configuration: all the > distribution is in ELF format, but the default configuration seems to > generate a.out executables when installing packages. > > For example I installed bash-2.02 through the standard GNU procedure, > and I got the following (I noticed it because "size" at the end of the > bash compilation failed): > > fbdell# file bash > bash: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped > fbdell# size bash > /usr/libexec/elf/size: bash: File format not recognized > -- > Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message