From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 3 04:37:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25611 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 04:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25588 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 04:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00318; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:28:04 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA00394; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:27:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980603132737.53379@follo.net> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:27:37 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Vladimir Kushnir , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modload doesn't work when OBJFORMAT=elf? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Vladimir Kushnir on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:40:58PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:40:58PM +0300, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > BTW, why not make binutils supporting both a.out-i386-freebsd and > elf32-i386? They seem to be able to do this, though this would > somewhat increase their size, but not by much We use an old and hacked version of binutils for a.out, because the binutils maintainers haven't integrated our changes, and we need them (for shared libs, IIRC). All of this is second hand; I've not actually read the code... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message