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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF support in 2.2 ???
Date: 6 Jul 1996 22:50:47 GMT
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bn225@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Mathias Kretschmer) wrote:

>   I've got two simple questions...
> 
>   1) What is the current state of the ELF-implementation in FreeBSD 2.2 ?

Functional.  The so-called ``image activator'' (the part of the kernel
that performs the actual object file loading) has been around there
since March, 1996.

>   2) Is there an ELF-Kit (ld.so shared libs, etc) available ???

Yes, partially (the tools are available, but i think you gotta compile
your own libs if you wanna experiment with it).

Anyway, it's not very likely that FreeBSD 2.2 will ship with ELF being
the default object format.  You haven't told us why you are asking...
By now, it's simply `experimental'.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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