Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:23:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] Message-ID: <19970820102352.64876@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3733.872014363@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 11:12:43AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970818231103.25809A-100000@current1.whistle.com> <3733.872014363@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 11:12:43AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > You thought I was joking? > > I think the first step is to start getting some -current testers to > convert to ELF and pave the way for a more general effort. Right now, > running a FreeBSD system 100% ELF is mostly just a theory. What do you mean by "convert to ELF"? I hope you don't mean a wholesale change. I'd be interested in testing it (and the BSD/OS stuff, too, if I can find my BSD/OS 3.0 CD-ROM), and maybe building some packages in ELF instead of a.out, but I wouldn't want to change everything at the moment. Greg >> actually I believe it's probably time >> to start getting ready to do this >> >> julian >> >> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >>>>> I agree that it's a bug, and I followed up there saying I planned to >>>>> fix it. One fix would be switching to ELF, of course ... ;-) >>>> >>>> Well, let's do it then. :) >>> >>> On a more serious note, since BSDI has now switched to ELF, aren't we >>> going to have to do so anyway?
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