Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:52:50 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "R. Imura" <imura@ryu16.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving some items out of src/sbin to src/usr.sbin
Message-ID:  <20030602083714.A13535@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030602030031.H77796@ryu16.org>
References:  <20030531202221.GA22056@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305311527220.4662-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030601221123.B11577@gamplex.bde.org> <20030602030031.H77796@ryu16.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, R. Imura wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > mount_smbfs isn't actually dynamically linked currently:
> >
> > %%%
> > $ file /sbin/mount_smbfs
> > /sbin/mount_smbfs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.0, statically linked, stripped
> > %%%
> >
> > The world was built with NOSHARED=yes.
> >
> > This seems to be a bug in mount_smbfs/Makefile:
> >
> > %%%
> > # Needs to be dynamically linked for optional dlopen() access to
> > # userland libiconv (see the -E option).
> > #
> > NOSHARED?=	NO
> > %%%
> >
> > If it really needs to be dynamically linked, then NOSHARED should
> > be set unconditionally.
>
> When statically linked, mount_smbfs is limited to no character conversion
> based on libiconv.so, because dlopen() returns "Service unavailable".
> Since smbfs works fine w/o code conversion, if someone wants, he can
> make it statically linked. I think European need dynamically linked
> for their character code conversion purpose.
> (In my case, I(japanese) don't use -E option for mount_smbfs, because
> it doesn't work for 16bit chars, so I can make it statically linked.)
>
> Anyway, I think this is not a bug of mount_smbfs/Makefile, IMHO.

I like this treatment, provided the error is sufficiently obvious.

I think we will get similar behaviour for NSS.  It's not an error for
a module to be missing if it is not needed, and static linkage just
limits the accessible modules.

Bruce



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030602083714.A13535>