Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:59:38 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@shockwave.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu Message-ID: <199503140459.UAA02507@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503140442.OAA10323@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 14, 95 02:42:37 pm
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> >As to how this is to be provided, and what measures we have to take to > >comply with the ($#^#&$%@&ing) GPL, is to be determined. I will have no > >problems checking out the source code for this, (cvs co -t RELEASE20) during > >the "make release" and include it in the "compat20" if that is the solution. > > This only works because libgcc*.c hasn't changed since before FreeBSD-2.0R. > If it had changed earlier then we would have already fought this battle. checking out to the tag will work. > I'm worried about the same problem for our own libraries. I don't like > having to keep old library binaries that I can't rebuild. If we were > less sloppy about incrementing the library version numbers then we > might have already fought battles over this. There might be dozens of > versions and shared libraries occupying more space than they save in > executables. You want to dump shared libs all together ? or are you talking about people doing upgrades and not zapping the old shlibs ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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