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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF?
Date: 26 Apr 1997 15:18:47 GMT
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Olaf Manczak <Olaf.Manczak@desy.de> wrote:

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

You can of course build it.  John Polstra's ELFkit used to be
available for quite some time.  It's only that it's not included by
default, since it would clash with some of the existing tools.

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

I didn't, you did.  I wrote: ``FreeBSD can already execute native ELF
binaries ...''.

> Still waiting for sth real,

Curious, for what reason?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)