Noah> Is there a timetable yet for shared libraries working?
Noah> Is there a better place to ask this question? I've checked
Noah> the FAQ, but many features, including shared libraries, just
Noah> aren't mentioned.
To quote from the FAQ:
1. What State Is Linux/Alpha In?
Pretty much everything is up and running: there is now XFree86, LaTeX,
ghostview, Mosaic, Emacs, gcc, NFS, automounter, all sorts of shells,
perl, python, Tcl/Tk, scheme, apache HTTP server, and pretty much
anything else that's freely available. X11 works well on several
video cards (see below). The only thing that is still dearly missing
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is a GNU ld that can produce shared libraries and a freely available
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dynamic loader. Besides that, performance tuning is probably the
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biggest remaining junk of work. In particular libc and libm need more
code optimized specifically for the Alpha architecture.
At to a timetable: we are waiting for DEC to finalize their Alpha ELF
standard so that Linux can be compatible with it. Latest I heard is
that this is going to happen RSN. Anybody have an update on this?
I don't believe anybody is currently pursuing a free implementation of
ECOFF shared libraries.
--david
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