Re: ELF conversion (was Re: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance & preparation for a.out abolishment)

[and1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly)]

In article <[🔎] 199511011559.HAA21462@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com>,
Bill Mitchell  <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com> wrote:
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>However, more directly to the point of moving elfward, I like Ian's
>suggestion about a elf-available(8) test during preinst of elf-dependent
>(elfish?) packages.  It seems clean, simple, and effective to me.

And if the script were called 'elf-system', then the standard error message
would be quite convenient:

elf-system: not found

:)
Austin