In article <xofbthjtdjy.fsf@blubb.pdc.kth.se> joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:
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>Is there a list of things that does't work yet? Appart from the usual
>cross-compilation problems, I've come across these:
>
>*) fdisk/mbr/mbr gets wrong size (808 bytes), should be fairly easy to
>   fix

Just fixed it.

>*) the _start/__start ld lossage - was this fixed?

I have not seen that one.

>On the same subject, the a.out emulation, is this really a good idea?
>When running a.out binaries I tend to be imensly confused by the fact
>that /usr is someplace else, and things like shell completion doesn't
>work well. Are there any advantages over using a specially built
>ldconfig that looks in some directory other than /usr/lib (like
>/usr/lib/aout, or for that matter /emul/aout/usr/lib)?

You'll still need ld.so in /usr/libexec, why don't you recompile your shell?

>Is there a timeframe for a general switch to ELF?

Not really. After 1.4

christos