From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 1:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from macbeth.phy.hr (macbeth.phy.hr [161.53.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996A837B67B; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkumer@macbeth.phy.hr) Received: (from kkumer@localhost) by macbeth.phy.hr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA79778; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:33:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kkumer) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:33:10 +0200 From: Kresimir Kumericki To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why do I have lib*_p.a? Message-ID: <20000420103310.A79700@phy.hr> Reply-To: kkumer@phy.hr References: <20000419193513.A73459@phy.hr> <200004191951.PAA52037@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004191951.PAA52037@server.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:51:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On (19 Apr 15:51), John Baldwin wrote: > On 19-Apr-00 Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > > after make world I still have lots of _p.a libraries in > > They might still be left over from your initial installation. The > initial install installs profiled libs by default. Yes. Looking at the dates I see that these are old libraries from the initial binary installation. Is it safe to just delete them all? > .a are static, or archive, libraries. .so are dynamic libraries. Thank you all guys for clarifying this. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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