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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: XFree86 and -current
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David Dawes, On 09-Sep-98 you wrote:
>  On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 09:38:25AM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> >
> >Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth, On 09-Sep-98 you
> >wrote:
> >>  
> >>  The latest alpha of XFree86 (3.9Nd) build & runs fine under ELF,
> >>  providing you 
> >>  have set up your host.def correctly.
> >
> >For the less fortunate amoung ourselves, can yo enumerate ``...set up
> >your
> >host.def correctly'' ?
>  
>  He means adding:
>  
> #define UseElfFormat YES
>  
>  because it isn't yet auto-detected in our the ELF bits in the current
>  XFree86 developmenet code.
>  
>  I don't see how that would account for the -lcrypt thing.

If you noticed from the conversion of FreeBSD (make world, etc.) to ELF,
this was necessary to explicitly state.  I think it simply carries over
from that conversion.

Simon


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