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Re: ELF (Important, espc. f/ developers)



In message <[🔎] 199507271657.QAA24578@ind302ba.wi.leidenuniv.nl>, J.H.M.Dassen writ
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>- ELF and a.out don't bite. Installing the ELF utils does not mean
>  that you can do a.out compiles anymore. You can switch between
>  ELF and a.out compiles easy if you make a /usr/elf directory 
>  as I've described earlier.

	When I recently installed the latest ELF-friendly everything, 
including the latest non-alpha binutils, libc, and gcc, I ended up
with a system that couldn't linu *anything* (ELF or a.out). When I
sent a message to linux-gcc describing my problem, it went effectively
to /dev/null.

	I am assuming that the ELF transition is easy and great if it works,
but I think that MANY people completely fail to take into account the case
where it doesn't work. I've *never* seen a working ELF system, and I work
with a number of people who use Linux. They've never seen ELF work, either.
This is not a good sign, IMO.

								-Craig


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