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Date:      17 Jan 2000 09:00:41 +0200
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines
Message-ID:  <86vh4tdvxi.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: rfg@monkeys.com's message of "14 Jan 2000 22:21:42 %2B0200"
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001140830170.5488-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu> <54934.947881142@monkeys.com>

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rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:

> The original libelf code was/is owned by, and developed by AT&T's Unix
> Systems Group (USG) which AT&T sold to (I think) Novell and which Novell
> then sold to SCO.

> Bottom line is that the _real_ libelf is proprietary code.

There is a free (LGPL) libelf-implementation available, see
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~michael/software/

It doesn't compile on FreeBSD without modifications, but porting
should be reasonably easy (I did it for some old version a couple of
years ago).


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