From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 9 03:44:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA20558 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA20552 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17741 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:44:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:44:52 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Shared libs on alpha Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For anyone experimenting with FreeBSD/alpha at the moment, please avoid trying to use shared libraries for the next couple of days and keep your systems static. The nice folks at Cygnus have managed to change the shared object format in such a way that shared executables and libs linked eith binutils-2.8.1 are totally incompatible with those linked with binutils-2.9.1. Since we haven't released anything yet, I will only be supporting the 2.9.1 format in rtld but I have some more testing to do before I can commit that so stay static for the next few days. For any of the NetBSD folks reading this list, be warned that you will get grief from binutils if/when you upgrade your toolchain to binutils-2.9.1. To be specific, the PLT format has changed and you will probably need two versions of _rtld_bind_start for the new and old formats :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message