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Tnks I will give it a try. Really, interested on this stuff for
large C++ packages such as ACE. I suggest that you add a little
README.current to your elfkit directory mostly because I think
thats where people will go for information about elf on FreeBSD
at any rate thats what I did 8)

	Tnks again,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of John Polstra :
> 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
> --
>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
>    John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
>    "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth