Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:08:23 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se> Cc: Send to questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Self-contained binaries Message-ID: <20001009000823.M272@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIOEMPCAAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>; from james.wilde@tbv.se on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:01:37AM %2B0200 References: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIOEMPCAAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>
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* James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se> [001008 23:59] wrote: > I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the > programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external > libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was > mounted. However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the > case on Solaris. Is it so in FreeBSD? Yes, that is how it works in FreeBSD. Solaris is pain, my condolences. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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