On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

.. On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:53:23 -0400 (EDT) 
..  Benoit MARTEL <magus@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
.. 
..  > with shared libs. It would be really good if we could just get rid of the 
..  > basterdized versions once and for all.
.. 

.. 
.. In any case, I've been playing around with Elf on the m68k as I have
.. time, so eventually, we'll have Elf shared libraries, and thus use
.. stock GNU tools.
.. 
.. Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov


To add to Jason's remarks: The pmax port (what about powerpc and alpha?) 
use Elf instead of aout, and works with current gcc & binutils. On one
hand this is good, but on the other side it has the disadvantage of making
this (these?)  ports different than the "normal" NetBSD ports. 

A total conversion to elf has been discussed before and it seems to be
a non-trivial task -- and not all people seem to agree that this is the
long-term goal.

- Erik Bertelsen