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Re: Patches to change ELFOSABI_MONTEREY to ELFOSABI_AIX.
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:40:44PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:39:40PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > BTW, in the modern world, there should be no static binaries. You can
> > tell which target a dynamic binary is for by checking PT_INTERP.
>
> So you're going to make the Linux `ldconfig' a dynamic binary?? ;-)
> This Linux binary is the biggest reason FreeBSD needs an ELF branding
> method.
FYI, gABI/psABI mainly cover dynamic binaries. They rarely mentions
static binaries if at all. Besides, there is nothing to stop you from
building a dynamic ldconfig. It is a trivial thing to do. But we,
Linux, won't use the dynamic ldconfig for obvious reasons.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)