Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:01:10 -0400 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: ben@rosengart.com, Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur Message-ID: <19980814210110.48283@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808141752150.10458-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 05:53:02PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808141211110.12318-100000@zone.syracuse.net> <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808141752150.10458-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 05:53:02PM -0400, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > The transition from a.out to ELF will not be easy; I see some definite > > potential hangups: > > Perhaps someone who experienced Linux's switchover can warn us of some > likely 'issues'. I wrote one of the docs for it, and my only warning is that it sucks if you have to do it all yourself. Being able to `make world' and be converted will be really nice. The only major concern (at the time) was with underscores in assembler files, but I think most of those problems have been fixed by now. -- Brian Cully <shmit@erols.com> ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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