From: Adrian Wallaschek (Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
Date: 01/30/93


From: Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek)
Subject: Q: anyone ported elk ?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 22:27:38 GMT

Hi everybody!

Just a question:

        Has anybody ported elk to linux?

Information:

        Elk is a scheme interpreter linkable to and extendable by C and C++.
        If I understood the README right, elk is meant to be a compatible
        and highly portable Language-extension for any existing or future
        application perform runtime-configurable tasks.

        Elk supports:

        - scheme (lisp) interpreter

        - runtime loading of module which depends on the a.out-format
          (btw: which a.out-format does linux use ? How does it differ from
           others ?)

        - undump of a fully configured application ? (not severely needed, but
          possible!)

        - interfacing to X11 Xt Xaw and Motif

Problems:

        - the runtime loading of object-files depends on ld (-A option)
          which seems to be available and the a.out format which seems
          to be a problem.

        - direct acces to elements of FILE. It uses the former elements
          _cnt and _ptr to throw away the buffers (Discard_Output and
          Discard_Input). Linux/gnulib has many more pointers than that.

Actual version of elk seems to be 2.0. Any help and information wanted!

Yours,

prefect

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