From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 11:19:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25773 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25766 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA25023; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:19:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA21545; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:18:57 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:18:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199803021918.MAA21545@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: John Saunders , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <199803021910.LAA13112@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <34FA4B49.4747FC37@scitec.com.au> <199803021910.LAA13112@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You might want to be running a kernel that groks ELF with ELF shared > > libraries installed before you do a make world. Otherwise I can see a > > point where you overwrite an a.out program that is needed to complete > > the make world. > > The kernel already groks ELF, so that's not an issue. Shared ELF libraries with and ld.so is still necessary. > > Is 3.0 going to be like Linux and understand both > > executable formats? > > Which planet have you been on for the last year or so? Even 2.2 will > run ELF binaries. 8) Except for the shared loader, it understands them. We still don't have one that understands ELF libraries *except* from other OS's. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message