From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Dec  3 08:42:35 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24691
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:42:35 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from piranha.eds.ch ([194.235.48.10])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA24685
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:42:23 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@agie.ch)
Received: from helium.eds.ch by piranha.eds.ch (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
	id RAA25095; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 17:40:35 +0100
Received: from agie.ch ([198.132.159.194]) by helium.eds.ch
          (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5)  with ESMTP id AAA3D0D;
          Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:43:04 -0100
Message-ID: <3666BF51.12D17964@agie.ch>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 17:41:53 +0100
From: "nunnari" <roberto.nunnari@agie.ch>
Organization: AGIE
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Salvatore Greco <salvo@reaper.org>
CC: questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: gcc-2.8.1 port compilation error
References: <366505BD.62BE4FA9@agie.ch> <19981202140259.B3699@reaper.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Hi Salvatore,

I took a look at the ports... but didn't find any *ELF*.tar.gz anywhere
Any hint?

Thanks and bye.
Robi.

Salvatore Greco wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:17:49AM +0100, nunnari wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I also experienced the same hassles with a non-ports application that I wanted
> to install.  There are two different types of Binaries - aout and ELF.  By
> defaulkt the aout system is installed with FreeBSD and the ELF one needs to be
> added later.  ELF is apparently better and its a relatively painless operation
> to install the ELF binaries.
>
> I hope that this helped.
>
> | yesterday I installed just fine tcsh only by typing 'make install'
> | ...that's simply great!
> | But I failed to do the same with gcc-2.8.1.
> | When I type 'make install' I get a message about broken ELF and unknown
> | a.out
> | format...
>
> -- Salvatore Greco | salvo@reaper.org | http://salvo.reaper.org


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message