OSLib and ELF

[John Tytgat]

In message <be0f09d24e.root at vertus.xs4all.nl>
          Erik Groenhuis <e.groenhuis at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> As Tony van der Hoff wrote on 11 Apr 2007:
> 
> > Whilst I would agree that it is desirable to maintain native build
> > capability, if the choice, dictated by developer availability, has to be
> > between adding ELF support and maintaining native build capability, what
> > should we choose?
> 
> Is there realy such a hard choice between a native build capability and
> ELF support, or is this a false dilemma?
> 
> Are there technical reasons why we cannot have them both? Are there
> other reasons?

For me it is simply a choice where I burn my developer time.  A priority
choice.  No technical reasons.  Currently we have to different sets of
Makefiles, one for RISC OS native build and one for the cross-compile build.
Making ELF changes in the cross-compile build will not result in ELF
support for the native build.  And on top of that, we don't have yet
GCCSDK 4 on RISC OS itself.

It's time to have the ELF changes for OSLib officialised so that test ELF
builds can be done and QAed.  Like e.g. NetSurf.

John.
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