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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!newshub.csu.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF support for FreeBSD ? Date: 5 Mar 1996 07:32:51 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4hgqn3$6oc@times.tfs.com> References: <aak2.825887021@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <aak2.825887021@Ra.MsState.Edu>, Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: >I appologize if this has already been beaten to death. I searched >this newsgroup for "ELF" and found no matches, so I ask. >Is ELF support planned for FreeBSd ? If yes, when is it expected ? >I ask because I hear that Oracle will be releasing ELF binaries and >I would like to be able to run Oracle on my system. Oracle can hardly be goingto release ELF binaries for FreeBSD if FreeBSD doesn have ELF. What OS are they releasing it for? where did you hear this? If they are releasing FreeBSD software that's great.. My suspicion is that it's linux or similar binaries you're thinking about. In that case, Linux emulation with ELF binaries is about a week away in -current native FreeBSD ELF support is about the same, though why any one would want it is beyond me as it doesn't give any advantage over the present format, other than as a 'check-box' item in a "Me too" race with Linux. julian