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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!minotaur.labyrinth.net.au!usenet From: John Hartley <jbh@labyrinth.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Patches for (2.1) kernel ELF support Date: 20 Aug 1996 06:19:19 GMT Organization: Labyrinth Connections Pty Ltd Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4vbld7$2c3@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: portal-as18.labyrinth.net.au X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-74 Could someone please advise me on how I can patch my FreeBSD 2.1 to include native ELF support. I have installed the ELFKIT so that I can compile C++ apps with gnu 2.7.2 and would like to add native ELF support to my kernel, so as not to have to use elf-run. I do not want to run DOOM or Quake, just test and compile my own C++ code (which is heavily templated and causing lots of problems with the gnu 2.7.2/libg++2.7.1 and native as/ld combination, hence move to ELF), hence my request for ELF support patches. Thanks in advance. BTW I am having much greater success with ELK-KIT and gnu 2.7.2/libg++2.7.1/elf-kit binutils than with previous attempts, ie: * native as/ld + "weak patch", * native ld + binutil 2.7 gas + pgcc * native as/ld + pgcc + "weak patch" Are there plans to move the kernel to ELF??? This would make the maintaining of c++, ld/gas combination much easier, and robust template support is absolutely necessary for C++ development which implies gnu 2.7.0 or greater as 2.6.3 template are vastly lacking. John Hartley inet: jbh@labyrinth.net.au Graphica Software Pty. Ltd. fax: +61 3 9481 1520 North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia