Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:42:01 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSDk Message-ID: <199502280042.QAA00200@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:22:27 MST." <9502280022.AA04262@cs.weber.edu>
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>If not, then there needs to be a tree+history export/import facility, >and Nate has indeed found a small hole in the plan. 8-(. It's not the only hole in the plan. Unwilling participants (in both camps) is a much bigger problem. Even if you were able to resolve all the problems with adopting someone elses libc, you'd still have the much more serious problems with the other libraries (starting with libkvm). The _only_ solution to the problem is to incorporate whatever improvements are worth incorporating from the foreign libcs (be them NetBSD, BSDI, SysV, or whatever) and (for binary compatibility) provide a mechanism for segregating the foreign system's shared libraries. -DG
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