Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 18:46:10 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: second post: elf patches for -current Message-ID: <199708020146.SAA09667@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199708011006.DAA03932@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199708011006.DAA03932@rah.star-gate.com>
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In article <199708011006.DAA03932@rah.star-gate.com>,
Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>
> I downloaded the elfkit from John's ftp site and noticed that the
> README file was dated from 1996/04/16 and that it requires the
> include files from FreeBSD 2.1 .
>
> Doesn't make sense that we should patches for freebsd -current that
> does not require the include files from 2.1?
ElfKit is almost obsolete, because just about everything you need
is now in -current. You can build the FreeBSD compiler for ELF by
specifying "BINFORMAT=elf". The standard libc in -current (and I
think in -2.2 also) can be built for ELF, and it works just fine.
You don't have to do anything special; just compile it with the
ELF tools.
The current version of GNU binutils has all the FreeBSD-ELF support
in it. Just configure it like this and then build it:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/elf --host=i386-unknown-freebsd \
--target=i386-unknown-freebsdelf
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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