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To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD)
Subject: Re: stanford benchmark/usenix 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 96 13:58:56 PST."
             <199601221302.OAA11833@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> 
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 11:01:21 PST
From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
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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