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From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse)
Subject: Re: ELF?
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Olaf Manczak (Olaf.Manczak@desy.de) wrote:
: 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 :-(
Up to you to pick gcc and try to build an i386-unknown-elf target !

: I really don't know why do you call it `FreeBSD supports native ELF'.
Means no intermediate processing to get it running...

: Still waiting for sth real,
But can perfectly live without it !
FreeBSD shared libs are hopefully powerfull enough for my needs (dynamic
loading via dlopen()/dlsym()...)

: - O.
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