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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF support in Sparc-NetBSD?
Date: 24 Jan 1996 09:58:50 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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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?
- Frank
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