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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: PROBLEMS!! (FreeBSD 2.0)
Date: 4 Mar 1995 12:35:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3j6v3r$dlr@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>    Sure, if you statically link the JPEG/TIFF/XPM libraries into the xv
>binary itself.  I think there is one xv FreeBSD binary distribution that
>does that.  Otherwise, why would you want to duplicate those routines in
>each and every application that uses them?  It makes more sense to load
>library routines from a central archive.

I think that some additional work will be soon going into package
dependencies that flag this kind of thing and tell you what's needed.

>    My turn to gripe a little.  :)  The netpbm FreeBSD binaries archive
>has all the correct symlinks in place (it is a merged compile), but it
>is missing the actual executables!  Now I have a bunch of symlinks in

Fixed in -current.

					Jordan