From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 30 03:54:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA28431 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 03:54:35 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA28408 ; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 03:54:29 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA03929; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:05:54 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 11:05:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Craig .regexp. Struble" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A little off-topic, but.. Fresco? In-Reply-To: <199506292102.RAA03854@quirk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Craig .regexp. Struble wrote: > On Tue, June 27, 1995 at 01:57:26 (+0100), Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I finally decided to build Fresco after going through the whole X11 build > > anyway (to link with -lgnumalloc, which does seem to work well for me at > > least so far). However, I see a rather large lack of sample APPLICATIONS > > for the thing. Hmmm? How are people testing the resulting library, if > > I may ask? > > > Well before Fresco will work, MAJOR changes in ld.so are > necessary. Doug Rabson (dfr@render.com) has written some of the > changes, and I've been testing them. They fix most of the problems I > was having with Fresco. I'll let Doug discuss the changes he's > made. He did post about his changes a few weeks back, but he seemed to > be summarily ignored. Maybe now he can bring things back up again. I have now commited the ld.so changes to FreeBSD-current. To use them you will need to (at least) rebuilt crt0.o c++rt0.o and ld.so. I am not sure I would class the changes as MAJOR. Most of ld.so is unchanged; I just rewrote dlopen. I would like to see these changes move into the 2.1 track so can people please test them in -current and give me some feedback. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939