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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!sirius.physik.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever support ELF? Date: 11 Oct 1995 12:48:46 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 23 Message-ID: <45gefe$f5n@fu-berlin.de> References: <oenwlx9v8.fsf@vapor.Franz.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) X-Access: 16 17 18 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Kevin Layer (layer@Franz.COM) wrote: : It seems that GCC is moving toward making ELF the object file format : standard and making shared libraries possible. Given this and *if* : there are no plans for FreeBSD to support ELF (I can't remember seeing : a discussion about it), then won't this pose a problem for continued : use of GCC on FreeBSD? : Just thinking ahead to when I test drive FreeBSD 2.1... maybe i've missed something - but the fact that linux moves to ELF does'nt mean that gcc will no loger be available for other formats t p.s.: FreeBSD has shared libs too _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____