From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 08:29:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26553 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26522 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v5ZOx-0008z2C; Tue, 24 Sep 96 08:27 PDT Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06776; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:05:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:05:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609241505.JAA06776@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: libcompat.so.2.0 In-Reply-To: <4897.843560150@time.cdrom.com> References: <199609240836.KAA05067@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <4897.843560150@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No, someone turned off shared versions of this long ago (when in > doubt, it helps to actually try looking at the Makefile :-), probably > to "fix" the regerror() clash (and it's not even all that certain > which version is the "right" one for libcompat). Actually, we turned it off since 'not every library should be shared', which the Linux folks are finding out. Stuff that is fairly non-standard shouldn't be compiled shared simply because it shouldn't be used. Compiling it shared implies that programs *should* use it (because it doesn't use as many resources), and we want to discourage folks from using libcompat. Nate