Re: ELF -- a.out ?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm writing to ask if there is a Debian 1.3 release that uses the ELF format rather than a.out and if yes, could someone be so kind as to point out to me an ftp site that has the install disks so I can have a running ELF system?
> Xwindows 3.3 requires that there be an elf system.
> Thank you in advance!!!!

Debian has been full ELF compliant since 1.1 and, while there are a few
a.out programs still hanging on (for various reasons) almost all of the
977 packages available in 1.3 are ELF.
In addition, while 1.3.0 is still XFree86 3.2, it is expected that 1.3.1
will include the 3.3 version of X.

Luck,

Dwarf
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