From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 13:18:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22125 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22044 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id GAA21717; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:29:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808312029.GAA21717@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day In-Reply-To: <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Aug 31, 98 04:51:34 pm" To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:29:36 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikael Karpberg wrote: > Converting to ELF means that "all" the system binaries, etc will be in ELF > format. But if I have ports installed... like emacs, or xv, or whatever. > Those will still be a.out... Will the ELF world still run a.out programs > without problems? Yes. > The only change will be that all system program are ELF instead of a.out, > and I basically wont notice a thing, except for having to do the convertion? The programs look the same until close inspection by `file' or `nm', for example. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message