From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 17:46:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org.50.231.216.in-addr.arpa [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C689637B584 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Received: from localhost (rjoseph@localhost) by manatee.mammalia.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09437 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:46:49 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright To: freebsd-questions Subject: format of libraries Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed a linux program on my machine which includes a library libxxx.a. I was wondering if libraries need to be "brandelf"-ed as well as executables. But when I did "brandelf libxxx.a" it said that it was not an ELF format. So I checked other libraries with the suffix .a. They also were not ELF. But all the .so libraries said they were ELF. What format are the libraries with .a suffix? Does anything need to be done with them if they are linux binaries? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message