From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 20:00:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA26045 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from utgard.bga.com (utgard.bga.com [205.238.129.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from faulkner@localhost) by utgard.bga.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id WAA14961; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:00:26 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603130400.WAA14961@utgard.bga.com> Subject: Re: Elfkit-1.0.1 announcement To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:00:25 -0559 (CST) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603130137.RAA16462@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Mar 12, 96 05:37:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to John Polstra: > > > > Elfkit is a collection of tools for compiling and executing ELF > programs under FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE and later. It consists of: > > * 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. > > * 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. > 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 -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner "The fates lead him who will; faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag." http://asgard.bga.com/~faulkner Old Roman Saying -- Source: Joseph Campbell _____________________________________________________________________________