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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:1475 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1622 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Something positive for a change: FreeBSD 1.0 shared libs are working Message-ID: <2cb4mo$2jn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: 16 Nov 93 18:04:08 GMT Article-I.D.: pdq.2cb4mo$2jn References: <JKH.93Nov15003742@whisker.lotus.ie> <g89r4222.753431451@kudu> Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <g89r4222.753431451@kudu>, Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote: >In <JKH.93Nov15003742@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > >>A number of people have talked about FreeBSD's teething troubles with >>shared libs, most comments being rather unfair (to say the least) >>considering that we've only recently (less than 2 weeks) started on >>integrating them! In any case, I am very pleased to report success >>with all but /bin and /sbin compiled shared (these two being >>deliberately compiled static so as to give the user a reasonable >>chance of resurrecting themselves in case of difficultly). > >Same here at the moment - I'm still waiting for Makefile patches >for XFree86 though, as soon as I get those I'll rebuild X. Working on it. Thanks to John Brezak, both FreeBSD and NetBSD may have shared X libraries with minimal effort. (But my make blew up last night due to a stupid thing I did right after I walked out of the office, grrr) More later, Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me