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Subject: Re: Elfkit release 1.1 is now available
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:27:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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[...]
>     * Patches for libc from FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE, to support building it
>       as an ELF shared library.
[...]
> 
> You can compile and link arbitrary programs, as long as they use only
> libc.  (The other libraries aren't converted yet.)  The output of the
> linker is a standard, dynamically-linked ELF executable.  You can also
> build ELF shared libraries.

Can one  system have elf AND a.out style dynamic libraries at the one time?
how can you tell them appart?

Is there a possibility of mixed a.out and elf libraries for Static linking?
or is that impossible?