Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:36:10 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64 Message-ID: <20060112083224.U34596@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <43C5B463.5020505@samsco.org> References: <20060111073859.457C37302F@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <20060111090039.N760@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <200601110853.19622.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060111150808.P760@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20060111142302.GA34661@ip.net.ua> <20060111142622.GB34661@ip.net.ua> <43C5B463.5020505@samsco.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Scott Long wrote: SL>Ruslan Ermilov wrote: SL>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:23:02PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: SL>> SL>> > > Wouldn't it then make sense just to build a shared libdisk? Is there a SL>> > > reason not to have one? SL>> > > SL>> > SL>> > Here's the original reason. I'm not sure if it still holds. peter@ and SL>> > phk@ Cc:ed. SL>> > SL>> > : RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libdisk/Makefile,v SL>> > : Working file: Makefile SL>> > : head: 1.44 SL>> > : branch: SL>> > : locks: strict SL>> > : access list: SL>> > : keyword substitution: kv SL>> > : total revisions: 65; selected revisions: 1 SL>> > : description: SL>> > : ---------------------------- SL>> > : revision 1.12 SL>> > : date: 1996/03/17 19:02:07; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +1 -0 SL>> > : Repository copy src/release/libdisk to src/lib/libdisk as per recent SL>> > : discussion on -core about disk partitioning tools etc. SL>> > : : Add NOPIC=yes to Makefile to prevent any possibility of version SL>> > mismatch SL>> > : because of the potential grave consequences. (as suggested by phk) SL>> > : : Note that this is also on RELENG_2_1_0, since the sysinstall stuff is SL>> > : hopefully going to remain in sync. SL>> > SL>> SL>> As a safe measure, we can build and install a special PIC archive, SL>> similar to libc_pic.a and libgcc_pic.a, and use it here. This is SL>> all in an assumption that it's still unsafe to produce the libdisk.so. SL>> SL>> SL>> Cheers, SL> SL>One way or another, please fix it. Why is bsnmp linking to libdisk anyways? SL>It's an absolutely horrible library. Then either remove it, put a 'don't use this horrible library' into the man page or whatever. How is one supposed to know that it shouldn't be used if it is there? I suppose that this library is currently the easiest way to enumerate all the partitions and slices. The hostres MIB needs this to populate the hrPartitionTable. I would also say, that everybody is free to 'fix' this. harti
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