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linux 1.3.4 elf is released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jul 1 06:54:07 1995
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:34:41 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
Subject: linux 1.3.4 elf is released
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: Linux, ELF, patch, kernel
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Hi,
This is a new ELF patch, 1.3.4.elf, for Linux 1.3.4. It makes Linux
1.3.4 compatible with both ELF and a.out formats. You need modules
1.2.8 or newer to use module in ELF. I fixed a few bugs here and there.
I am afraid the longer this patch is postponed to put into the
official tree, the more conflicts/bugs we will see. Linus, could
you please take a look this patch? Thanks a lot.
You can edit arch/i386/Makefile to choose which binary format you want
to compile the Linux kernel in. I only tested it on my machine.
I also added the kernel ELF core dump, which is taken from the
patch made by jeremy@sour.sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge).
You also need a gdb patch to read the ELF core dump.
This patch needs the following packages from me:
1. binutils 2.5.2l.17 or newer.
2. libc 5.0.9.
3. gcc 2.7.0/ELF or above.
The primary ftp sites for the compiler/C library are tsx-11.mit.edu
under pub/linux/packages/GCC and sunsite.unc.edu under pub/Linux/GCC.
After applying the patch, you can compile the kernel in ELF:
# cd linux
# gzip -dc ...../linux-1.3.4.elf.diff.gz | patch -p2
# make zImage
The resulting arch/i386/boot/zImage is compiled in ELF.
After editing arch/i386/Makefile, you can compile the kernel in a.out.
H.J.
hjl@nynexst.com
06/27/95
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