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From: Stephane Russell <fk691525@er.uqam.ca>
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Marty Leisner wrote:
> 
> this reminds me...will binutils 2.8 run for freebsd.
> 
> I understand there's some type of ELF compatibity...where can
> I read more about it?
> 

Except for the files that comes with the package itself, I found no
particular information about this issue.

binutils-2.8.1 includes configuration for FreeBSD and most other BSD
variants. This probably means that it should compile and work on it. But
I have not tested this yet. That's yet to come.

Stef