Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:23:11 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: S ren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running binutils 2.8, elf support? Message-ID: <9709252123.AA29437@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:39:35 PDT." <199709202039.WAA04762@sos.freebsd.dk>
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> >Not really, but there is work underways to make FreeBSD convert >to ELF. Peter Wemm, John Poltra and Myself have been working on >this lately, and we have our test systems running all ELF, so >it not that far away... >It wont happen overnight though, as there are ALOT of details >that needs to be sorted out, before we attempt to "morphe" >-current into ELF. It will happen though, but I can't give you >a time frame just yet, neither how its going to be done. >I can however guarantie that we will go for a method, that >causes the least possible pain for our -current users, but >remember -current is bleeding edge, and sometimes the edge is >not exactly userfriendly... > >Please be patient, we are working on this as fast as we can... > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end >.. Can you put a small, unstripped, statically linked binary someplace (like hello world?) I just want to see if the cross-binutils work... I would like a "development" version (not an installed version), so I can cross-compile... marty
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