Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:56:42 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF default format vs. a.out default binary name Message-ID: <36D2A58A.B6571F5B@urc.ac.ru> References: <36D29EC9.27B554DA@urc.ac.ru> <19990223144415.A86038@ucb.crimea.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:27:53PM +0500, Konstantin Chuguev wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just curious: if ELF is the default binary file format now, then why gcc
> > still produces a.out file by default?
> >
> > Well, I know, I've changed the reason and the consequence, so it's a
> > kind of joke :-)
> >
>
> Either set OBJFORMAT=elf or put this line into /etc/objformat.
>
Oh, sorry, I wrote not accurately. I meant, if you don't set -o
<outfile-name> option in gcc, then the file will be named a.out, even if it's
in ELF format :-)
--
Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern
http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet,
mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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