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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to link /bin (and /sbin) dynamically? Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 04:10:56 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <337C40C0.63DECDAD@FreeBSD.org> References: <y7zyb9f26wi.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41028 Peter Mutsaers wrote: > OK, I know it is more reliable, but OTOH if I have a boot floppy and > regular tape backups, I can always reinstall the system in case of a > filesystem damage or in case of a stupid error (like rm /usr/lib/libc*)... That makes you the exception case - most others just panic and send email. ;-) In any case, that's why the default is set the way it is. > How can I change make world to do this? Is there a simple flag or do I > really need to modify /usr/src/bin/*/Makefile? Look in /usr/src/bin/Makefile.inc and take out the line that says NOSHARED=YES. Same for /usr/src/sbin/Makefile.inc if you're so inclined. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.