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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()]
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On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 03:59:08PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > What do you mean by "convert to ELF"?  I hope you don't mean a
> > wholesale change.
> 
> Why not?

Because I don't have the time at the moment.  I'm too busy finding
out why libc.so.3.0 doesn't build in -current, and thus blows my
world out of the water.

Of course, if somebody could show me (or make it plausible) that this
would be possible without causing particular compatibility problems,
I might change my mind.  What I really don't understand is why a
wholesale changeover should be necessary: I certainly hope that the
new system will still be able to run a.out executables.

> > I'd be interested in testing it (and the BSD/OS
> > stuff, too, if I can find my BSD/OS 3.0 CD-ROM), and maybe building
> > some packages in ELF instead of a.out, but I wouldn't want to change
> > everything at the moment.
> 
> Why not?

See rule 1.

Greg