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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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <29577CEB029DEE7D.15EB282B5ACE579C.9F4A01791A26A597@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <5jt6cn$i8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cmott-2004971630470001@192.168.0.5> <5jooj9$9c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33609855.6725@desy.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal45-8.ppp.iadfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!newsfeed.gte.net!news-in.iadfw.net!pcrown.net!news-in.iadfw.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39785 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. ;-)