From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 14:14:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09537 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09423 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA00547; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:51:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980613155147.39993@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:51:47 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Marty Leisner Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF (was: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD) References: <19980531071501.Q20360@freebie.lemis.com> <9806131934.AA25861@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <9806131934.AA25861@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>; from Marty Leisner on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 12:34:04PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 June 1998 at 12:34:04 -0700, Marty Leisner wrote: >> Yes, it's possible. -CURRENT now supports ELF, and some people are >> already running all-ELF systems. > > Is there a way to make a minimal ELF system? (for starters, > I'ld like to see hello, world statically linked in ELF). Sure, there's a way, but I don't have the details--I haven't been following the discussion too closely. It's probably worth waiting a while before doing anything, say until the middle of next month. > Does 3.0-SNAPshot kernels support ELF by default? They support ELF, I believe, but they don't generate them by default. > I really would like a set of ELF libraries so I can cross-compile > to freebsd (using gnu binutils). I'm not sure what you're saying here. Do you want to compile FreeBSD executables on other platforms? You might want to discuss that with Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org). Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message