From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 28 18:23:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21315 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-65.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21279 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00950; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Kenneth Chiu cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , John Birrell , Chuck Robey Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Kenneth Chiu wrote: [..] > I'm thinking about getting Motif, but am concerned about being > dependent on XIG for a 3.0 version. First, how hard would it be > to write a program to convert a.out to ELF? Is it just a matter > of converting the relocation table, symbol table, and string table? > Or will the 3.0 loader be able to mix and match ELF and a.out? If you stick with static libs, I think it's purely a matter of removing the prepended underscore. This might be the way to go until XiG releases a true ELF version. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message