Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 11:01:21 PST From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) Subject: Re: stanford benchmark/usenix Message-ID: <199601221901.LAA27365@eng4.sequent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 96 13:58:56 PST." <199601221302.OAA11833@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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In message <199601221302.OAA11833@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> , you wrote: > > >Wouldn't it make more sense to have separate libraries for each > > >processor type, and to install the appropriate versions? > > I had thought > of a part of the system startup that checks the processor type and > puts in the correct hard links (symlinks are slower) before any > program gets started. How about the startup program `ldconfig' that generates a hints file where <libc, 2, 2> => /usr/lib/libc-i586.so.2.2. It can even tell at that point whether such an enhance library exists (for *any* library). The install might just construct the libraries from the generic libs and a few object files shipped with the distribution. --Ben
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