From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 2 02:26:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA23400 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 02:26:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA23390 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 02:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA10705; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 10:14:56 GMT Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 10:14:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: John Polstra cc: troyc@sandy.merix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ELF status? In-Reply-To: <199712311722.JAA19985@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Troy Curtiss 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