From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 18:47:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21277 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21244 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com) Received: from ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (ariadne [157.147.227.36]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04029; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:45:05 +0800 (WST) Received: from ariadne by ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA17381; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:45:45 +0800 Message-Id: <199808280145.JAA17381@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Birrell cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:06:19 +1000." <199808280106.LAA09471@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:45:45 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > George Michaelson wrote: > In more than one line: If you're one of those ports people, you'll have > to try building the ports you maintain to find out what needs munging. > Satoshi has asked for the elf switch to thrown sooner rather than later > to give people as much time as possible to work on making ports elf > aware. If you're discouraged by this, you don't need to convert to elf > straight away, however you should be aware that as the ports are modified, > elf will be the only supported format on 3.0-CURRENT and 3.0-RELEASE. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh bother. I bought a copy of XIG's Motif 2.0 a couple of months ago. The CD has BSDI, FreeBSD & Linux binaries on it. The linux binaries are ELF, but I don't know how deeply libXm et cetera delve into linux's libc. I wonder if I could hit them for an upgrade when 3.0-RELEASE hits the street. Then there's the Xfree86 code to be rebuilt for ELF format. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message