From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 08:53:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15185 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hns4.hns.com (hns4.hns.com [208.236.67.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15160 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:53:31 GMT (envelope-from kchowksey@hns.com) Received: from hnssysa.hns.com (hnssysa.hns.com [139.85.76.210]) by hns4.hns.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11441; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:48:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from inssun5.hns.com (inssun5.hns.com [139.85.192.5]) by hnssysa.hns.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA16910; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (kchowksey@localhost) by inssun5.hns.com (8.7.1/8.6.12) id LAA15913; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com> From: Kapil Chowksey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Polstra CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting ELF shared libs into a.out shared libs In-Reply-To: <199804151008.DAA28074@austin.polstra.com> References: <199804150924.RAA01162@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <199804151008.DAA28074@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.30 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 April, John Polstra wrote: > feasible, and I'm planning to write one. When I was working through > it, I remember I decided that an ELF->a.out converter would be less > feasible. But I can't remember the reason right now. Sorry, I'm not An ELF->a.out converter might actually be a neccessity for the sparc port. Sparc OpenBoot can only boot from a.out images. There is one existing for UltraLinux already. -- Kapil Chowksey Viva GNU ! kchowksey@hns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message