From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 6 08:11:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05655 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:11:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (libya-234.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05643 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA00549; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:48:01 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:48:01 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: John Birrell cc: sysseh@workcover.qld.gov.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elves wanted - apply within In-Reply-To: <199802060825.TAA11003@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Alex wrote: > > However, I > > think that you can build world with an ELF target to get a fully ELFable > > system, however a few things relying on an a.out kernel will break. > > I don't think you can build an ELF system without using John Polstra's > ELF kit. As far as I can see, there are no ELF tools in the tree at > present. These are going to come from binutils. Whoops. I forgot that part. But, after building and installing the ELF kit, I think all one needs to do is tweak a few bsd.*.mk files. Or make binformat=elf world. At least that's what I remember being told. - alex