From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 14 18:04:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27439 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27261 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: from natasya.kublai.com (natasya.kublai.com [207.172.25.236]) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12665; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:01:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28280; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980814210110.48283@kublai.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:01:10 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: ben@rosengart.com, Brian Feldman Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com Mail-Followup-To: ben@rosengart.com, Brian Feldman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 05:53:02PM -0400 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ``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