From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 4 14:55:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12531 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12526 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12511; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809042153.OAA12511@austin.polstra.com> To: shocking@prth.pgs.com Subject: Re: Converting a.out shared libs to ELF shared libs. In-Reply-To: <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> References: <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:53:46 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199809040118.JAA18041@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth 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