From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 7 9:43:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4409437B5A6 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id RAA96075 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:43:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:43:47 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linking both aout and elf libraries Message-ID: <20000807174347.I83550@irrelevant.org> References: <398E9E37.9E3A482B@cequrux.com> <200008071625.JAA39374@vashon.polstra.com> <398EE63B.526F87C6@cequrux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <398EE63B.526F87C6@cequrux.com>; from gram@cequrux.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:39:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:39:24PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > 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. Could you be thinking of the compatibility libraries which allow you to still run a.out binaries on elf systems? That's the only thing I can think of... if so, then freebsd can do this with the compat22 stuff -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message