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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14399 comp.os.linux.misc:29532 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!news.dsndata.com!backbone!crcnis1.unl.edu!cse!jbettis From: jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: ELF, dynamic loading and Perl 5.000 Date: 11 Nov 1994 20:39:13 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3a0kph$6ul@crcnis1.unl.edu> References: <39tu2u$o8r@styx.uwa.edu.au> <39uqd6$5uq@news.nynexst.com> <39v65v$7cp@news.nynexst.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) writes: >I am expecting Linux will move toward ELF very fast in the next >few weeks. Before the end of year, there will be some full >ELF linux distributions. >BTW, all the old a.out binaries will still run fine although >I think you should upgrade to ELF. For the sake of all of us who have not been following the Linux-activists secret mailing lists. Why should we use ELF? I see (from the examples that you erased), that building shared libraries are a heck of a lot easier. What other reasons are there for moving to elf? -- Jeremy Bettis -*- PGP Public key available -*- University of Nebraska INET: jbettis@cse.unl.edu "Those who stand in the middle of the UUCP: jeremy@tddi.UUCP,jeremy@hksys.com road are often hit by passing cars." Running Linux -- The Free Unix for i386/i486/Pentium machines. Ask me how.