From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 28 19:06:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27021 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27014 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:06:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15939; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:03:37 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808281903.TAA15939@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:54:16 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:03:36 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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