Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:28:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf & compat Message-ID: <199809230628.XAA00964@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:25:16 PDT." <1235.906524716@time.cdrom.com>
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> > So a program which, when build a.out, require an a.out libgnumalloc, > > will, when built ELF, *not* require an ELF libgnumalloc? > > Uh, what? > > > How does that work? > > How does what work? :-) Terry's brain, and the answer is that it doesn't. What you're missing, Terry, is that you can't build a program that requires libgnumalloc. You can *run* one, but you can't build one. Since you can't build them, and you couldn't build them for a long time before we went ELF, you'll never want to run them (because they don't exist). Please note carefully the scope of the above discussion before indulging in a meaningless display of pedantry. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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