From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 12:06:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FD337B411 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B6143F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h2QK5CBg013418; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:05:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (eischen@localhost)h2QK5BMJ013415; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:05:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:05:11 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <20030326195051.GB11320@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-25.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: arch@freebsd.org cc: kse@elischer.org Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:06:37 -0000 On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > Solaris and IRIX don't seem to provide static thread > > libraries. Does anyone know if Linux does? > > That's because they have abandoned static libraries completely, > if I'm not mistaken. Since we still link against archive libraries > is general, our decision to drop an archive threads library can > not really be based on that example alone. I don't think that's the case with Solaris. As of Solaris 9, there are 40-50 static libraries in /usr/lib: gpz [65] $ uname -a SunOS gpz 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 gpz [64] $ ls /usr/lib/lib*.a /usr/lib/lib300.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a /usr/lib/libnls.a /usr/lib/lib300s.a /usr/lib/libelf.a /usr/lib/libnsl.a /usr/lib/lib4014.a /usr/lib/libform.a /usr/lib/libpanel.a /usr/lib/lib450.a /usr/lib/libgen.a /usr/lib/libpkg.a /usr/lib/libTL.a /usr/lib/libgenIO.a /usr/lib/libplot.a /usr/lib/libadm.a /usr/lib/libintl.a /usr/lib/librac.a /usr/lib/libadt_jni.a /usr/lib/libl.a /usr/lib/librpcsvc.a /usr/lib/libbsdmalloc.a /usr/lib/libldfeature.a /usr/lib/libsec.a /usr/lib/libbsm.a /usr/lib/libm.a /usr/lib/libsocket.a /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libmail.a /usr/lib/libtermcap.a /usr/lib/libc2.a /usr/lib/libmalloc.a /usr/lib/libtermlib.a /usr/lib/libc2stubs.a /usr/lib/libmapmalloc.a /usr/lib/libvolmgt.a /usr/lib/libcmd.a /usr/lib/libmenu.a /usr/lib/libvt0.a /usr/lib/libcrypt.a /usr/lib/libmp.a /usr/lib/libw.a /usr/lib/libcrypt_i.a /usr/lib/libnisdb.a /usr/lib/liby.a gpz [68] $ ls /usr/lib/lib*thread* /usr/lib/libpthread.so /usr/lib/libthread.so /usr/lib/libthread_db.so /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 /usr/lib/libthread.so.1 /usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1 IRIX also doesn't seem to provide static thread libraries. Just because Solaris and IRIX doesn't mean we shouldn't; I'm just using those as examples. -- Dan Eischen