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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:58:52 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        amd64@freebsd.org, Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64
Message-ID:  <20060112015852.GA21690@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <43C5B463.5020505@samsco.org>
References:  <20060111073859.457C37302F@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <20060111090039.N760@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <200601110853.19622.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060111150808.P760@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20060111142302.GA34661@ip.net.ua> <20060111142622.GB34661@ip.net.ua> <43C5B463.5020505@samsco.org>

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:44:03PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >>: ----------------------------
> >>: revision 1.12
> >>: date: 1996/03/17 19:02:07;  author: peter;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
> >>: Repository copy src/release/libdisk to src/lib/libdisk as per recent
> >>: discussion on -core about disk partitioning tools etc.
> >>: 
> >>: Add NOPIC=yes to Makefile to prevent any possibility of version mismatch
> >>: because of the potential grave consequences. (as suggested by phk)
> >>: 
> >>: Note that this is also on RELENG_2_1_0, since the sysinstall stuff is
> >>: hopefully going to remain in sync.
> >
> >As a safe measure, we can build and install a special PIC archive,
> >similar to libc_pic.a and libgcc_pic.a, and use it here.  This is
> >all in an assumption that it's still unsafe to produce the libdisk.so.
> 
> One way or another, please fix it.  Why is bsnmp linking to libdisk 
> anyways?  It's an absolutely horrible library.

That is the best question.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?



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