From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 3 07:17:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03448 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03443 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:17:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.8.8) id HAA27172 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:16:29 -0800 Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda27170; Sun Jan 3 07:16:20 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id HAA10195 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:16:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901031516.HAA10195@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdy10190; Sun Jan 3 07:16:06 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Aout-to-elf Conversion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 07:16:05 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message