From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 11 06:51:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA12668 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA12662 Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tw8wa-0004IMC; Mon, 11 Mar 96 06:51 PST Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:51:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: sos@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... In-Reply-To: <199603110716.IAA18380@ra.dkuug.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Mar 1996 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: Wow, that is too cool! I suppose it is safe to assume that your changes will be in the next SNAPshot that Jordan makes, right? If so, I'm going to bang on them like crazy, since I want our ELF support to be really rock solid (even more than Linux's ;-)! Some programs I'd like to bang on: Quake (of course ;-) DOOM and Netscape (make sure the a.out stuff still works :-) GNAT (GNU/NYU Ada Translator, this will be tricky since my plan is to run the Linux version of the Ada part with a FreeBSD-native GCC 2.7.2), in the hopes of building a package/port of the latest GNAT (GNAT is written in itself, so you need a binary before you can build it) :-( :-( ELF version of Executor (great Macintosh emulator) Linux/ELF Motif libraries and programs (I bought MetroLink some time ago) Finally, a question for you. Are FreeBSD ELF shared libraries intercompatible with Linux ELF shared libraries, in other words could you compile a FreeBSD ELF program using Linux ELF Motif? It would be too cool if this was possible... ---Jake > Hi gang.. > > > After a hectic week, Peter Wemm and I are proud to announce that > FreeBSD-current now has ELF support. This means that we are now > able to run native FreeBSD ELF binaries (generated with John > Polstras Elfkit-1.0.1) and Linux ELF binaries, and yes Linux > QUAKE finally works, at least as far as Peter & I has tried it > (Hey I dont have time to play) > > Have fun !! > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > So much code to hack -- so little time.