Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 07:16:05 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Aout-to-elf Conversion Message-ID: <199901031516.HAA10195@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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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
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