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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:45:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF binaries
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971220114505.1017E-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199712191622.RAA00325@sos.freebsd.dk>

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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




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