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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Binutils 2.6 GAS for libg++ 2.7.1
Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:59:57 GMT
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Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> writes:

> Upon trying to build binutils on FreeBSD 2.1R, the configure
> script for gas does not have an obj_format for Freebsd. Is
> freebsd using aout, coff, elf (I suppose thats only linux) ?

a.out, though the ELF support went in a couple of days ago.  (Not only
Linux ELF, but also _native_ ELF support.  By now, this only means the
``imgact_elf.c'' is there, the utility support has to be integrated
yet.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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