Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:44:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.x (a.out) to 3.x (ELF) compatibility Message-ID: <19981013104443.R21983@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810121739.MAA22168@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:39:24PM -0500 References: <199810121739.MAA22168@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com>
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On Monday, 12 October 1998 at 12:39:24 -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Just wondering if upgrading to 3.x means all my old a.out binaries (ports, > etc.) must be recompiled to ELF? No. 3.X will compile to ELF by default (though you can change this, too, if you really want), but it will run all old a.out executables, including most of my old BSD/386 1.0 binaries. Currently there is no provision for loading a.out and ELF relocatables to a single binary. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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