From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 7 9:38:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DAA37BB33 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA07142 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:38:26 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 7139; Mon Aug 7 18:38:13 2000 Message-ID: <398EE63B.526F87C6@cequrux.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 18:39:24 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linking both aout and elf libraries References: <398E9E37.9E3A482B@cequrux.com> <200008071625.JAA39374@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > In article <398E9E37.9E3A482B@cequrux.com>, Graham Wheeler > wrote: > > > Is there a way to build the system so that a single executable can > > be linked against both aout format and elf format libraries? > > No, there isn't. > > > I know that NetBSD can do this (and in fact does this by default > > AFAIK), > > Are you sure? I don't have a NetBSD system, but I would be extremely > surprised if it could do that -- _extremely_ surprised. There are I was told this by a NetBSD hacker, who usually is an impeccable source of information, but I will check with him to make sure if he is right. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message