Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 10:03:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF preparation step 2 done Message-ID: <199805270803.KAA17092@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199805270731.JAA18392@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "May 27, 98 09:31:38 am"
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In reply to Mikael Karpberg who wrote:
>
> Will the ELF libs go into /usr/lib/elf/ or is the reason that a.out
> libs are moved that we want to put ELF libs in /usr/lib since that's
> the way of the future, and a.out libs will be there just for compability
> after a while?
ELF will go into /usr/lib, /usr/lib/aout is for backward compat.
> Also a more general question about ELF and FreeBSD. Do we allow for an
> easy way to distinguish a FreeBSD ELF binary from other binaries, no
> matter if it's static or dymanic, or whatever? I'm thinking about the
> problems that we have emulating Linux static ELF binaries without
> "brandelf"-ing them first, and thought that it would be bad to put other
> OSes in the same position when they try to emulate FreeBSD. Also FreeBSD
> wants to know it's fed a FreeBSD binary for sure, and not an unknown ELF
> binary, when it's asked to run something.
The tools does the "branding" on the fly so we know that it is our binary.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
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