Re: [G2R] Re: Various releases ...



On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 10:29, Alex Hornby wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:50, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > The ELF init/fini sections do library initialisation/cleanup in a clean
> > > way without using atexit().
> > 
> > But GNOME runs on non-ELF platforms.
> > 
> > -- Dan
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Which ones? Are the BSDs non-elf?

Free/Net/OpenBSD are ELF, but Darwin isn't. And I don't think HP-UX or
AIX is, and I'm not sure about Irix.

> Even if you don't use GCC (is GNOME ported to other compilers?)

Yes, people use compilers other than gcc to build GNOME.

-- Dan




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