Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:46:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "Eugene M. Kim" <gene@nttlabs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K.Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> Subject: Re: ELF Xfree86? Message-ID: <XFMail.980915084609.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809141702180.28930-100000@seera.nttlabs.com>
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Eugene M. Kim, On 15-Sep-98 you wrote:
> I have worked on this over the last weekend and made an alpha-quality
> patch. Unfortunately this patch was not intended to be a general
> backward-compatible one, but if you have a working ELF system it will do
> what you want.
>
> Would you -- and others who live with an Elf :-) -- like to try it? I
> don't want this work to be another waste-of-time...
Yes, please. I wasted (not knowing X11R6 well enough) a day trying to get
it to compile. I get stuck in the XIE and PEX5 missing a bunch of -I
directives, and then the creation of the shlibs fails with incorrect flags.
I am a bit surprised as XFree86 compiles ELF on several platforms.
>
> Regards,
> Eugene
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Alok K. Dhir wrote:
>
> | Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
> | From: Alok K. Dhir <adhir@worldbank.org>
> | To: current@FreeBSD.ORG
> | Subject: ELF Xfree86?
> |
> |
> | Is the ELFized version of the XFree86 port on the horizon? I ask
> | because
> | I'm seeing a few ELFized versions of some X ports coming in, and those
> | aren't make-able until XFree86 is ELF...
> |
> | How about the perl5 port?
> |
> | Thanks!
> |
> | Al
> |
> |
> |
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Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
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