From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 0: 8:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5A837B66F for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9978N422789; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:08:23 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: James A Wilde Cc: Send to questions Subject: Re: Self-contained binaries Message-ID: <20001009000823.M272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from james.wilde@tbv.se on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:01:37AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * James A Wilde [001008 23:59] wrote: > I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the > programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external > libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was > mounted. However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the > case on Solaris. Is it so in FreeBSD? Yes, that is how it works in FreeBSD. Solaris is pain, my condolences. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message