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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!quads!spfarrel From: spfarrel@quads.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) Subject: Re: ELF support in Sparc-NetBSD? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: midway.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <DLsvHq.32z@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: redtape strn fanclub References: <4e3gnl$a6q@nuke.csu.net> <4e4sca$frm@carol.fwi.uva.nl> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 18:03:26 GMT Lines: 17 In article <4e4sca$frm@carol.fwi.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >mklarkin@cs.sci.csupomona.edu (Michael K Larkin) writes: > >>The stock ld and binutils wont support ELF under generic NetBSD. > >>Anyone up to starting a compatibility package for this? > >The native format for NetBSD/sparc is a.out, and ELF is recognized >as part of some of the compatibility modes. If you want to create >NetBSD/sparc ELF binaries (I guess this is what you're talking about >here) you should be able to do that by configuring the GNU binutils >to create them, and making sure that the ELF exec code is in the kernel. > >I'm not sure why you would want to do this, though? maybe he's talking about running solaris bins?