It's a case of customer not understanding that the architecture is
different is why I raised the question. I said I would ask the learned
members of the list as I'd never heard it described as "ELF" Before.
Basically they have some software that they would like to see run on the
z/Series Linux but the vendor doesn't see a market. Frankly what he said
to me sounded crazy, in that he was trying to convince me that it was 'run
anywhere' code. To which I replied that's what Java was suposed to be
until Microsoft go involved.
Thanks Gang. Now I can go wave indisputable fact in front of them instead
of my own educated guess.
-J
Rick Troth
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ALL Linux is ELF.
ELF is an execution (and linkage?) format for many platforms.
PC Linux has been "ELF" for several years ... nearly ten, I suppose.
Mainframe Linux has been "ELF" as long as it has been public.
(That is, prior executable formats had fallen out of use on Linux
before the advent of the S/390 port.)
For a program to be "an ELF binary"
does not mean it will execute on differing hardware.
The linkage may be functional, but the supporting libraries
will be missing, and most importantly, the processor will
not understand the foreign instructions.
Not sure what your customer is after.
I'm "all excited about ELF binaries" too!
Would love to see a convertor to/from CMS executable format.
But that doesn't buy much in the production world today.
-- R;
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, James Melin wrote:
> I've got a customer here that's all excited about ELF binaries. They have
a
> product they'd like to see run on z/Series linux but there is no
> declaration that z/Series is a supported platform. They do state that
their
> binaries are 100% ELF compatible. What exactly does that mean for an
intel
> based product when someone wants to have you try it on z/Series cuz it's
> ELF binary compatible. Shouldn't work regardless, should it?
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