From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 05:29:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08312 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (hunt@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA08306 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from hunt@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18293; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:29:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19971017082934.38014@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:29:34 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: lukas@reichardt.ch Cc: Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out <-> GNU CC References: <34472f6e.11976311@1.1.1.17> <19971017193844.40743@lemis.com> <34474b1a.19060737@1.1.1.17> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <34474b1a.19060737@1.1.1.17>; from Lukas Ruf on Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:48:41AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:48:41AM +0000, Lukas Ruf wrote: > If the default output format of a compiler/linker pair to produce an > executable is ELF, how can I tell the compiler/linker pair to produce > an a.out-format executable. FreeBSD's default is not (yet) ELF, it is a.out. You do not need to specify any options to use or produce a.out objects. Can someone explain how this will work in the post-ELF world? -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.