Sparc changed to ELF

Contributed by jose on 2002-08-12 from the whee! dept.

"Sparc's executable file format is changing from a.out to elf: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=102910629909952&w=2, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=102910652610064&w=2, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=102910668510167&w=2 and other cvs changes. "

This isn't terribly surprising, but it is welcome news. Hurray! Now I need to update my Sparc system :) I expect (but am not sure) that Sparc users will have to recompile everything to avoid segfaults (ports included), but I'm not sure. If that's the case, most people who track -current would probably do well with snapshots. Read Art's posting about it.

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By Clueless Sysadmin () on 2002-08-12 05:53

For those of us who aren't codemonkeys, what does this mean?
By Danno () on 2002-08-12 07:05

I seem to recall that ppc is already ELF, but what about i386? Any plans in the works for it?
By Anonymous Coward () on 2002-08-12 20:40

but some fuck deleted my message.

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