Re: Conversion to ELF

Eric Plante (planteer@jsp.umontreal.ca)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:31:16 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Bob Allison wrote:

> a.out and ELF. I had to sort-of follow the move_to_elf document I fo=
und
(...)=20
> Is there any interest in me posting my notes to the list? I'm not su=
re
> how many people have a.out only systems and are trying to convert to
> ELF from scratch.

Is this the same as the Elf-HOWTO? If not, take a look at it first. I=20
also had a Slackware 2.2 (I think.. A year-old slackware anyway), and I=
=20
followed almost exactly the elf-HOWTO without problems (I just grabbed=20
more recent versions of the files required). One thing the elf-HOWTO do=
es=20
not mention is anything about X, because I believe it was written befor=
e=20
XFree3.1.2 was release. I had to figure out (am I right) that I needed =
to=20
install the XFree3.1.2 Elf libs and binaries in order to compile and us=
e X11=20
elf programs.

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