Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 10:14:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: troyc@sandy.merix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ELF status? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980102101318.19134B-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199712311722.JAA19985@austin.polstra.com>
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On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, John Polstra wrote: > In article <troyc-9711292202.AA000121949@sandy>, > Troy Curtiss <troyc@sandy.merix.com> wrote: > > > It seems to percolate up every now & again in this list on how the > > all-ELF FreeBSD is going... Anybody (jdp, sos?) care to comment on > > the progress made so-far? > > Everybody who was working on it got very busy with paywork, so there > hasn't been much progress lately. We still have hopes of having it > ready for 3.0-RELEASE, but time will tell whether that will work out > or not. The primary obstacle remaining is The Migration Problem. I think that a big help in migration would be a runtime linker which could load both a.out and elf shared libs. You would also need a tweak to ld to allow you to link and ELF program to an a.out lib but that shouldn't be too hard. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039
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