Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:53:46 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: shocking@prth.pgs.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting a.out shared libs to ELF shared libs. Message-ID: <199809042153.OAA12511@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> References: <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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In article <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> wrote: > > A while back there were rumbles about someone (John Polstra?) doing this. Any > news? I've got a bunch of Motif related libs from XiG that I'd like to convert. I made quite a bit of progress on it this week, but it's not done yet. Don't worry, when it's finished I don't plan to keep it a secret. :-) > On a related note, has anyone tried out some third party Linux ELF libs (not > libc!) yet? The XiG CD has Linux & BSDi binaries on it, in addition to the > a.out FreeBSD binaries. There's almost no chance that libraries (a.out or ELF) from a different system will work together with our libraries. They were built using entirely different include files, and therefore different data structure layouts. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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