In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J.H.M.Dassen writ
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>- ELF and a.out don't bite. Installing the ELF utils does not mean
> that you can do a.out compiles anymore. You can switch between
> ELF and a.out compiles easy if you make a /usr/elf directory
> as I've described earlier.
When I recently installed the latest ELF-friendly everything,
including the latest non-alpha binutils, libc, and gcc, I ended up
with a system that couldn't linu *anything* (ELF or a.out). When I
sent a message to linux-gcc describing my problem, it went effectively
to /dev/null.
I am assuming that the ELF transition is easy and great if it works,
but I think that MANY people completely fail to take into account the case
where it doesn't work. I've *never* seen a working ELF system, and I work
with a number of people who use Linux. They've never seen ELF work, either.
This is not a good sign, IMO.
-Craig
