Mon 2003-06-16 20:01, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> FreeBSD moved from "a.out" format to ELF format in
version 3.0, but
 ac>> gcc still outputs files named a.out (unless you use the -o option)
 ac>> presumably not to break old Makefiles/build systems, etc.

 RJT> So it's already in that format?  (Looking...)  Damn,  so it is! 
 RJT> Right there near the start of the file,  I see "ELF".  Hmm.  Guess
 RJT> I gotta play with these tools a bit more,  get to know them better.
 RJT> :-)

Yup.

15:16 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~]file `which ls`
ls::     can't stat `ls:' (No such file or directory).
aliased: can't stat `aliased' (No such file or directory).
to:      can't stat `to' (No such file or directory).
ls:      can't stat `ls' (No such file or directory).
-F:      can't stat `-F' (No such file or directory).

Whoops.  That won't work!

15:16 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~]file `which 'ls'`
/bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
statically linked, stripped

15:17 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~]file `which file`
/usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

:-)

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