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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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