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Attn: Linux Software Vendors Please Read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Mar 28 00:49:25 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:42:21 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Attn: Linux Software Vendors Please Read
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: C library, ELF, a.out, commercial vendors, advance notice
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Hi,
In the next few weeks, Linux will move to the ELF binary format. A
new set of the ELF-based development tools will be released for
testing during the week of May 27. All the new binaries generated
by the new development tools will be in ELF. We have compiled the
kernel, XFree86 3.1.1 and many packages in ELF. They are all working
fine. The next module utilities will also support ELF.
In the meantime, a new and last a.out DLL shared C library 4.7.x will
also be provided for bug fixing. All the old a.out binaries should
continue running fine. But all the new features will only be in the
Linux C library 5.x.x which will be in ELF only.
To help smoothly transfer to ELF, I hope the commercial software
vendors please get in touch with me. I will provide all the necessary
supports to migrate to ELF, which should be very easy. I'd like
to see the ELF versions of Motif, Netscape, Mac emulator, ...
to just name a few. I have some documentations and examples which
are useful for using ELF.
Thanks.
H.J.
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