From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 03:54:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4994B16A4EE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 03:54:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA4C43D41 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 03:54:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j4A3sFFg067946; Mon, 9 May 2005 22:54:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:54:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jason C. Wells" Message-ID: <20050510035415.GJ38839@dan.emsphone.com> References: <51CBB3D8803BBA96BE71960F@[192.168.1.16]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51CBB3D8803BBA96BE71960F@[192.168.1.16]> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated lib*_p.a files X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:54:16 -0000 In the last episode (May 09), Jason C. Wells said: > I run a homegrown script after upgrades to find outdated binaries. I have > a bunch of files name /usr/lib/lib*_p.a that predate my recent upgrade to > 5.4-RELEASE. What are these? Can they be deleted without harm? Those are versions of libraries built with profiling code. If you have NOPROFILE set in your make.conf, you should remove them from /usr/lib. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com