From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 10:53:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tranquility.net (usr2-ppp34.tranquility.net [206.156.230.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD5837B6AE for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) Received: from localhost (ishmael@localhost) by tranquility.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00885; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:55:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:55:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Ishmael To: Kresimir Kumericki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do I have lib*_p.a? In-Reply-To: <20000419193513.A73459@phy.hr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG .so are shared libraries. .a are static libraries. Both are elf. As for why you have _p.a libs, did you install profile libs during initial installation? Rebuilding world wont delete stuff already there. Jeremy On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > I was under impression that lib*_p.a libraries are "profiled" > libraries that should not be built if NOPROFILE=true is > specified in /etc/make.conf. I have uncommented this line but > after make world I still have lots of _p.a libraries in > /usr/lib. What have I got wrong? > And while I'm at it, what about .a and .so libs. Again, I > seem to remember that .a are aout and .so elf libs. Does any > of FreeBSD programs still use aout libs? > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Kresimir Kumericki kkumer@phy.hr http://www.phy.hr/~kkumer/ > Theoretical Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message