From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 20 11:44:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA07945 for current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-78.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA07936 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01608; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:45:52 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:45:50 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Søren Schmidt cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries In-Reply-To: <199712191622.RAA00325@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Alex who wrote: > > I've seen some messages before about getting FreeBSD ELF support in the > > binutils, and a recent interest in egcs got me wondering. How hard would > > it be for the fbsd changes committed with the egcs stuff (so one can do > > dynamic libraries with egcs), or what kind of problems would I run into if > > I decided to grab a newer gnu binutils and use that? > > Most of the changes are allready there. Use i386-unknown-freebsd or some > thing close to that... > > The compiler in current can be configured for ELF too... If I replace the binutils with GNU binutils 2.8.1, will I still be able to run my a.out programs, or will everything need to be recompiled? - alex