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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:25:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@durham>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NOSHARED
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.960909202349.1508B-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960909200201.4503C-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jim Durham wrote:

> I replied to this to another person and neglected to cc: hackers.
> So, let me explain.
> 
> I was compiling a hacked copy of slattach.c. I noticed the binary
> was huge and figured out that it was being linked statically.
> 
> Being of a curious mind, I decided to investigate and found the
> place in bsd.prog.mk where it was tested to control whether or not
> shared libs are used.
> 
> What bothered me at that point was why the original binary was linked
> to use shared libs and the /usr/src/sbin/slattach directory's Makefile
> caused slattach to be statically linked when I made it? If the binary that 
> came with the dist was dynamically linked, why was my new compile static?
> 
> I then went looking for where NOSHARED was set. I figured it had
> to be in /usr/src/sbin/slattach's Makefile. No dice. I even looked at
> /usr/src and usr/src/sbin Makefiles. No dice.
> 
> That is what prompted the question. Maybe it's because the distribution
> was trimmed by picking and choosing what binaries to make dynamic to save
> space in the distribution and the source tree just makes them all static 
> to simplify things?
> 
> If so, my question remains.. where the heck is it set to YES or TRUE?
> Just curious..

Makefile.inc in sbin.  Causes all the binaries in sbin to be statically
compiled, but I went into that in the previous mail.

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