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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: ELF objects (Linux)
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I want to create FreeBSD libs from Linux libs.  Using a.out libs the
following seems to work:

under Linux:
ar xv `ar t linuxlib.a`


then under FreeBSD:

ar qv freebsdlib.a *.o

and I can at least nm the lib. I'm assuming as long as there are no linux 
syscalls in that lib that it would work to link against the resulting lib
under FreeBSD.

Now when the linux lib is an ELF lib it doesn't seem to work. Do I need
to have ELF support under FreeBSD? Don't we have it already?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de