Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:34:15 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@Root.COM, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/libkern locc.c random.c scanc.c skpc.c libkern Message-ID: <199503201134.VAA15474@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> If no one objects by tomarrow afternoon we will not be installing >> libkern* in /usr/lib. This is just a waste of (albiet it small) >> disk space. > Hmmm, I tried compiling the latest snapshot of LITES on top of FreeBSD >current. I got some errors during the link because some functions >have been removed from libgcc.a. The only thing I could do to solve this >problem was linking LITES against libkern.a (which contains the missing >functions). > I know that the problem originates in the libgcc changes and is not >exactly related to libkern, but libkern was useful in this case. I suppose LITES isn't linked to libc for the same reason as the kernel - there is too much chance of picking up a module that only works in hosted environments. This shows why modules shouldn't be removed from libgcc - they may be required for non-hosted environments. Bruce
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