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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:29:49 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        chaos@oz.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems after aout-to-elf
Message-ID:  <199809011729.KAA13989@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980902000415.chaos@oz.org>
References:  <XFMail.980902000415.chaos@oz.org>

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In article <XFMail.980902000415.chaos@oz.org>,
Simon Coggins  <chaos@oz.org> wrote:
> 
> Okie I'm having problems now I've gone to elf... I'm getting errors like this
> form all my aout libs
> 
> /usr/X11/lib/libX11.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized

It means you have a.out X11 libraries, but are trying to link them
using the ELF linker.  Until you rebuild your X11 libraries as ELF,
you need to build your X11 programs as a.out.  Do that by putting
OBJFORMAT=aout in the environment before typing "make".
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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