From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 15 15:18:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22632 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-24.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22523; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA01516; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:19:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Niall Smart cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some symlinks needed to /usr/libexec/elf? In-Reply-To: <98Sep15.141504bst.19714@gateway.euristix.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > Hi, > > I presume it is not a good idea to have /usr/libexec/elf in your path, > then you would lose the automatic OBJFORMAT dependant aout/elf > switching. However /usr/libexec/elf/{obj{dump,copy}, addr2line} seem > to be ELF only, perhaps a symlink from /usr/bin to these executables > would be a good idea as they are not accessable otherwise (except by > giving an absolute path of course). Well, you could always put /usr/libexec/elf near the end, behind /usr/libexec or whatever so as to try the OBJFORMAT dependant versions first. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message