Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:42:39 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why do I have lib*_p.a? Message-ID: <20000420104239.N54921@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000420103310.A79700@phy.hr> References: <20000419193513.A73459@phy.hr> <200004191951.PAA52037@server.baldwin.cx> <20000420103310.A79700@phy.hr>
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Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > On (19 Apr 15:51), John Baldwin wrote: >> On 19-Apr-00 Kresimir Kumericki wrote: >>> after make world I still have lots of _p.a libraries in >> >> They might still be left over from your initial installation. The >> initial install installs profiled libs by default. > > Yes. Looking at the dates I see that these are old libraries from > the initial binary installation. Is it safe to just delete them all? If you don't want to use profiled libraries, yes. If you don't even know what they are or what they're for, yes. (They're only used for debugging AFAIK, so no standard piece of FreeBSD needs them if you don't use them to debug any software you write.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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