On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:40:31PM -0400, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> Ohh , ok I see. I remember some talk about ELF on the list I was not sure if
> 1.4.1 was ELF or not. So in effect will all the packages have to be
> recompiled to ELF format ? Or moreover will we not be able to use < 1.5
> binaries anymore ?
> 

It is recommended to recompile binaries for ELF, but not strictly necessary.
You can run a.out binaries in emulation mode on an ELF system, as long
as you have a.out shared libs (and ld.so)  in /emul/aout/usr/lib, and
a kernel compiled with a.out support.  (I'm doing that on this system)

Look through the mailing list archives for suggestions how to set this
up if you need it.

+j

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rizzo [mailto:riz@boogers.sf.ca.us]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:37 PM
> To: Tony Hernandez
> Cc: 'port-i386@netbsd.org'
> Subject: Re: 1.4.1 is elf correct ?
> 
> 
> NO.  (for i386)
> 
> 1.4.1 is a bugfix release based on 1.4, and since NetBSD-1.4/i386 wasn't
> ELF, neither is 1.4.1/i386.
> 
> NetBSD-1.5/i386 will be the first ELF release.
> -- 
> Jeff Rizzo
> http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz