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From: Olaf Manczak <Olaf.Manczak@desy.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:41:09 +0200
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY
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J Wunsch wrote:

> Well, you're writing in the FreeBSD group...  FreeBSD can already
> execute native ELF binaries for quite some time (more than a year).
> However, there's currently no ELF toolchain available in the official
> tree.

...which gives somehow funny meaning to the word `native' since you
can run it still cannot build it :-(

I really don't know why do you call it `FreeBSD supports native ELF'.

Still waiting for sth real,

- O.