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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-current shared libs.
Date: 14 Nov 1993 03:31:59 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: jiwhan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk's message of Fri, 12 Nov 1993 15:15:37 GMT


In article <1993Nov12.151537.15394@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
jiwhan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Ji Whan Kim) writes:

   I understand that NetBSD-current now uses shared libraries. How
   stable are these [...]

I installed shared libraries on my NetBSD development box 9 days ago.
Other than a stupid bug in lpd (which was in lpd, not the shared
libraries), I have had absolutely *no* problems with them.  Currently
the implementation does not deal with shared C++ libraries, but the
author, Paul Kranenburg, is working on that.

   and is it worth getting them now or waiting til they appear in a
   distribution?

Depends on how much of a concern disk space is to you.  I can tell you
that on my tiny box the disk savings are quite noticable.  (No numbers
handy, though.)