From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 7 12:06:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22219 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22208 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06514; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:04:58 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199802072004.VAA06514@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Elves wanted - apply within In-Reply-To: <199802071906.LAA17983@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Feb 7, 98 11:06:03 am" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:04:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" In reply to John Polstra who wrote: > Stephen Hocking wrote: > > > What are the plans for moving over to a completely ELF system? > > There is some work going on in the background toward that end. But > people are pretty busy earning livings these days. It will be ready > when it's ready. That's the best answer anybody can give you right > now. exactly. > > This crosscompiling in order to use third party ELF libs is begining > > to wear a little thin. > > Sorry to hear it. Please understand, these periodic posting storms > of people asking when we are switching to ELF are also getting a > bit irritating. Such questions can almost never be answered in a > volunteer project. Belive me, we are working as hard as possible, but things take time, and time is a very rare resource for most of the people involved in this effort. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..