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RE: What are the benefits of moving to ELF?
> What are the benefits of moving to ELF?
>
> I'm quite new to Linux (have heard about it a long time ago, but only
> recently managed to install it from the InfoMagic set). All I know is that
> ELF is a different executable format that the traditional Unix a.out . Am I
> right?
I don't know exactly what it does, the only thing I know that most of the
already compiled software for linux has ELF executable format -- so you can't
run it on your machine till you get ELF libc* and few other things
installed. After installing ELF you can run both ELF and a.out format
binaries, without any problem. You can also compile for both formats...
There is very good information source about ELF: why, how, where and what...
Just get ELF-HOWTO from any ftphost or WWW from [L,l]inux/doc directory,
and proceed with it...
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