From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 19 17:55:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17712 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA17690 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA26222; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:53:53 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA02292; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:23:52 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970820102352.64876@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:23:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] References: <3733.872014363@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3733.872014363@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 11:12:43AM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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?