> >>>>> "David" == David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> I really only see a need for two trees -- one stable a.out and > David> one experimental ELF. IMO, the experimental a.out tree should > David> only be a short-term repository for bug fixes to be checked out > David> by developers or beta testers before going into the stable > David> tree. > > There are independent libraries, a basic level of kernel support, and > different compiler targets. How do ELF and a.out conflict?
They do not conflict as such, but on the long term we have to have the ELF packages in a FSSTND compliant location, i.e. /lib and /usr/lib. In the current situation, the ELF development packages all go under /usr/i486-linuxelf/, and the binaries are all named *-elf. This is a temporary solution. One day the ELF release will have to make the almost irreversible step of moving into these locations and abandoning a.out support (or we'll have to move to a /usr/i486-linuxaout structure). This causes problems for people who's /usr is on a different partition than /. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
