From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 28 19:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01916 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-90.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01911 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:47:10 -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 TAA01171; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Chuck Robey cc: Kenneth Chiu , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , John Birrell 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, Chuck Robey wrote: [..] > > 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. > > 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. > > Is this untrue? Static libs are a different beast I think. The elf linker seems to grok old static libs. At least it did, the last time I had old a.out libs where I shouldn't have. Of course, I ran into undefined references, as the linker didn't expect an underscore. - 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