The Linux ELF HOWTO

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The Linux ELF HOWTO

Daniel Barlow <daniel.barlow@linux.org>

v1.29, 14 July 1996

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This document describes how to migrate your Linux system to compile and run programs in the ELF binary format. It falls into three conceptual parts: (1) What ELF is, and why you should upgrade, (2) How to upgrade to ELF-capability, and (3) what you can do then. After a fairly long fallow period in which I have been pretending to do academic work, it has recently been overhauled to give current information for Linux 2.0.

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1. What is ELF? An introduction

• 1.1 What ELF isn't
• 1.2 Why you should convert to ELF
• 1.3 How to convert to ELF

2. Installation

• 2.1 Background
• 2.2 Before you start --- Notes and Caveats
• 2.3 Ingredients
• 2.4 Rearranging your filesystem
• 2.5 What it should look like (outline directory structure)
• 2.6 Common errors --- Don't Panic!

3. Building programs

• 3.1 Ordinary programs
• 3.2 Building libraries
• 3.3 Building in a.out

4. Patches and binaries

• 4.1 Upgrade:
• 4.2 Patch

5. Further information

6. Miscellanities

• 6.1 Feedback
• 6.2 Translations
• 6.3 Legal bits

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