From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 16 23: 2: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (vpn.iscape.fi [195.170.146.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD4A14CEE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:02:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id JAA59645; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:00:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from will) To: rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines References: <54934.947881142@monkeys.com> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 17 Jan 2000 09:00:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: rfg@monkeys.com's message of "14 Jan 2000 22:21:42 +0200" Message-ID: <86vh4tdvxi.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message