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From: Olaf Manczak <Olaf.Manczak@desy.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:53:32 +0200
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 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.
Easy to say, more difficult to do:
a) the ELFkit available from ftp.polstra.com is a bit out of date
b) before you build your applications you need to rebuild at least
libc.so in the ELF format if not all the libraries
I really appreciate John's work on ELF but it is not at the moment
this option in not easier than, say, switching to Linux :-(
> > Still waiting for sth real,
>
> Curious, for what reason?
If you want to use C++ with its global/static constructors/destructors
and you want to build shared libraries and load them with dlopen or
LD_PRELOAD you need ELF since you need init and fini sections in the
object format rather a hack used by the gnu linker which builds a list
of constructors and destructors during linkage.
Cheers,
- O.
PS: I still haven't heard any answer to the question when the ELF
format is going to become default one in FreeBSD...