From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 25 14:24:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA14640 for current-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA14632 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <52475(5)>; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:24:16 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA15295; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:23:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA29437; Thu, 25 Sep 97 17:23:12 EDT Message-Id: <9709252123.AA29437@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: S ren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running binutils 2.8, elf support? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:39:35 PDT." <199709202039.WAA04762@sos.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:23:11 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Not really, but there is work underways to make FreeBSD convert >to ELF. Peter Wemm, John Poltra and Myself have been working on >this lately, and we have our test systems running all ELF, so >it not that far away... >It wont happen overnight though, as there are ALOT of details >that needs to be sorted out, before we attempt to "morphe" >-current into ELF. It will happen though, but I can't give you >a time frame just yet, neither how its going to be done. >I can however guarantie that we will go for a method, that >causes the least possible pain for our -current users, but >remember -current is bleeding edge, and sometimes the edge is >not exactly userfriendly... > >Please be patient, we are working on this as fast as we can... > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end >.. Can you put a small, unstripped, statically linked binary someplace (like hello world?) I just want to see if the cross-binutils work... I would like a "development" version (not an installed version), so I can cross-compile... marty