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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: "Eugene M. Kim" <gene@nttlabs.com>
Subject: Re: ELF Xfree86?
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K.Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>
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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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Simon Shapiro

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