From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 6:13: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D944937B40B; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.137.2.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.137.2]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA19263; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B825E5A.656BB9D9@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:12:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Mark Murray , Mike Smith , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libss termination References: <20010821123842.393F638FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the tree which uses > > > > > libss any longer, and hasnt been for quite some time. Is > > > > > there any reason to keep it? > > > > > > > > Nope. > > > > > > Right. Kill it. > > > > Are there any ports which depnd on it, and thus assume it's > > in the base system, which will need to be hacked to have a > > libss port on which they will need to depend? > > Well, why not have a look and find out? If so, supplying a list > is more productive than making somebody else go and look for you. It's not as easy as you paint it, since there are a lot of things that run config scripts and just "magically" find all sorts of libraries you never knew you had. It'd be a heck of a lot easier, if it were possible to force everything to link shared, which would show in an ldd of all the binaries in all the packages, but that would still leave some stuff out. I don't think there's an easy way to deal with testing this sort of thing, if you don't have a full ftp.freebsd.org mirror, with the ability to build each and every port after deleting the library and header files locally. I just asked mostly because I'm not the person diking it out without having checked first, and I remember the last time something like this went wrong... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message