From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 01:07:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02051 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 01:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01957 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 01:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA12313; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:37:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA11281; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:37:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980624173703.M5023@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:37:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Cooper , Marty Leisner Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD) References: <003b01bd9b75$58bfb6c0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <003b01bd9b75$58bfb6c0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au>; from Stephen Cooper on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 07:27:50PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 June 1998 at 19:27:50 +0800, Stephen Cooper wrote: >> On Sat, 13 June 1998 at 12:34:04 -0700, Marty Leisner wrote: >>>> Yes, it's possible. -CURRENT now supports ELF, and some people are >>>> already running all-ELF systems. >>> >>> Is there a way to make a minimal ELF system? (for starters, >>> I'ld like to see hello, world statically linked in ELF). >> >> Sure, there's a way, but I don't have the details--I haven't been >> following the discussion too closely. It's probably worth waiting a >> while before doing anything, say until the middle of next month. >> >>> Does 3.0-SNAPshot kernels support ELF by default? >> >> They support ELF, I believe, but they don't generate them by default. >> >>> I really would like a set of ELF libraries so I can cross-compile >>> to freebsd (using gnu binutils). >> >> I'm not sure what you're saying here. Do you want to compile FreeBSD >> executables on other platforms? You might want to discuss that with >> Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org). > > Does this mean BSDI 3.0 elf binaries will run in FreeBSD 3.0 and above? No, it doesn't mean that or the opposite either. I expect they will, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message