Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>, "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, joelh@gnu.org, FreeBSD-Current <FreeBSD-Current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: aout / elf library directories Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980716102023.4051A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <19980716100751.16056@iii.co.uk>
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 01:52:29AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > I think the timeframe for the death of /usr/lib/elf is within the next > > couple weeks, if all goes well. > > [ Disclaimer: this is well out of my general area of expertise, but this > has had me wondering for a while ] > > I'm a little confused by this. If I understand correctly, there are some > niggling problems with ELF (which is why we have tools such as brandelf) brandelf has little do with this. You need brandelf to mark binaries as to which ABI the binary is for. However, aout support will be required for support of dynamically linked 2.2 binaries. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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