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On 2017-04-15 08:07, Corbin Bird wrote: |
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> > But, all this is just stabs in the dark. Do we know what the cursed |
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> > elf-hack actually does? Why is it enabled by default? |
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> A simple guess is a compatibility fix for Linux. Making the files |
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> readable and executable. |
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> Linux uses the Executable Linkable Format ( elf ). Windows uses the |
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> Dynamic Link Library format ( dll ). The primary branch of Palemoon is |
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> "run-on-Windows" based. |
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But palemoon on gentoo "works" without it, as Bill K. notes, and as I |
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can confirm. |
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