Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com> writes: > 2010/4/27 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>:
>> I have a hard time imagining Debian ever supporting non-ELF >> targets. We'd need to maintain a completely separate libc, for >> instance, since I'm fairly sure glibc is ELF only. > uClibc is on the archive (not usable for runtime), it was also added > to dpkg as a new architecture, maybe someday we'll have a uClibc (w/ > MMU and w/o MMU). I'm fairly sure that uClibc is ELF. > We might need to support flat binaries for that. I'm not sure what you mean by "flat binaries" here. ELF versus non-ELF is a much more fundamental distinction than, say, whether or not something is dynamically linked. I don't believe the Linux kernel will even run non-ELF binaries without special module support. > There are also some teams and individuals which have the desire to > work on mobile world having Debian on them, for such purposes and > maybe not officially, there is space for a bionic libc or some others > that might be suitable for such purposes. I see no reason why embedded platforms can't use ELF. ELF is very common in the embedded world even entirely apart from Linux. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bpd3tm1z....@windlord.stanford.edu
