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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:03:36 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day 
Message-ID:  <199808281903.TAA15939@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:54:16 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808282051520.487-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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> Are you sure?  I thought that if you were linking up a elf executeable,
> you'd have to use 100% pure elf libs (and vice versa), and no mixing
> allowed.  I know about the underscore business, but it's a different
> linker extirely, isn't it?
> 
> I also thought that the run time linker (ld.so) only knew about one
> flavor, so you needed an elf one, and an aout one, and no mixing.

John Polstra has a tool which *may* be able to convert a static a.out 
library into a static ELF library.  It would be trivial to frontend 
this to make 'shadow' ELF copies of a.out libraries.

I haven't heard from John on this for a few weeks now; I do recall 
there were some complications, but I'll leave them to him to discuss.
-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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