From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 16 10:23:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13023 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13004 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0ywrjt-0002J2-00; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:22:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: nik@iii.co.uk cc: Tim Vanderhoek , "Scot W. Hetzel" , joelh@gnu.org, FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: aout / elf library directories In-Reply-To: <19980716100751.16056@iii.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 01:52:29AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > I think the timeframe for the death of /usr/lib/elf is within the next > > couple weeks, if all goes well. > > [ Disclaimer: this is well out of my general area of expertise, but this > has had me wondering for a while ] > > I'm a little confused by this. If I understand correctly, there are some > niggling problems with ELF (which is why we have tools such as brandelf) brandelf has little do with this. You need brandelf to mark binaries as to which ABI the binary is for. However, aout support will be required for support of dynamically linked 2.2 binaries. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message