From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 10:31:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16485 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16467 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13989; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809011729.KAA13989@austin.polstra.com> To: chaos@oz.org Subject: Re: Problems after aout-to-elf In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:29:49 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Simon Coggins 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message