Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:00:25 -0559 (CST) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Elfkit-1.0.1 announcement Message-ID: <199603130400.WAA14961@utgard.bga.com> In-Reply-To: <199603130137.RAA16462@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Mar 12, 96 05:37:17 pm
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According to John Polstra:
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> Elfkit is a collection of tools for compiling and executing ELF
> programs under FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE and later. It consists of:
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> * Patches for gcc-2.7.2, to make it support ELF under FreeBSD.
> * Patches for binutils-2.6, to make it support ELF under FreeBSD.
> * Patches for libc from FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE, to support building it
> as an ELF shared library.
> * An ELF dynamic linker.
> * A user-level test program that can invoke the dynamic linker to
> load and execute ELF programs under FreeBSD.
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> * gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz, from any GNU site.
> * binutils-2.6.tar.gz, from any GNU site.
> * The sources for libc, from FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE.
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Does this mean that with ELF, we could use a current version of gas with
patches? If so, this is the best reason to use ELF I have heard yet!
Boyd
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