From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 9 23:40:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07283 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07278 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01503; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:40:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806100640.IAA01503@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Libraries... In-Reply-To: <199806100332.XAA24644@freebsd.scds.com> from "Justin M. Seger" at "Jun 9, 98 11:32:50 pm" To: jseger@freebsd.scds.com (Justin M. Seger) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:39:59 +0200 (CEST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Justin M. Seger who wrote: > > Please let me know if we're going to only support ELF, and if not, where is the > correct place to read the binformat from. As the "manager" of the ELF project I can tell you with absolute confidence that we are going to be ELF only when the transition is over. That said it should also be stated that we will continue to run a.out format binaries, but there will be no further development in that area (ie no new libs etc), and the system default will be ELF. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message