I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it
to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses
Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in
fact. Does FreeBSD provide a similar interface? Poking around the man
pages has
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:34:15AM -0500, James Howard wrote:
> I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it
> to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses
> Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in
> fact. Does
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:34:15AM -0500, James Howard wrote:
> > I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it
> > to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses
> > Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf fi
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James Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it
>to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses
>Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in
>fac
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured
> that they had the obvious meaning. :-)
BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor.
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured
>> that they had the obvious meaning. :-)
>
> BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor.
Oh sure. That's one interpretation.
However
Today Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I personally was always more inclined towards the belief that
> `BFD' actually stood for `Big F***ing Deal', as in ``Who
> gives a damn?''
Unless you're being chased by a Big F***ing Dog. :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
> The original libelf code was/is owned by, and developed by AT&T's Unix
> Systems Group (USG) which AT&T sold to (I think) Novell and which Novell
> then sold to SCO.
> Bottom line is that the _real_ libelf is proprietary code.
There is a free (
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Hummm... I just tried doing a "locate" to see if this library was already
> installed on my FreeBSD 3.3 system, and it _did_ find it, but it looks
> like it is mixed in with the Linux compatability stuff:
>
> /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libbfd.
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