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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:22:14 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>,  "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,  freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, adrian@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML
Message-ID:  <549B2076.9050009@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141224202021.GQ1396@funkthat.com>
References:  <201410210217.s9L2HECn097421@idle.juniper.net> <549A5D1E.7020700@freebsd.org> <20141224202021.GQ1396@funkthat.com>

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On 12/24/14 12:20 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 22:28 -0800:
>> I see libxo has landed in FreeBSD, but it appears that the userland mods
>> to the utilities never made it in?  Is my assessment correct?
> Some has made it in... and that introduced a new issue... If you have
> a system w/ split root and /usr, then you won't be able to use all
> the utilities in / because of this:
> # ldd `which df`
> /bin/df:
>          libxo.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxo.so.0 (0x800820000)
>          libutil.so.9 => /lib/libutil.so.9 (0x800a2f000)
>          libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800c41000)
>
> Notice how df now depends upon a library in /usr which is a big no-no...
>
> libxo needs to be moved to /lib or we need to rip out the support from
> all utilities that live in /...
>
> Adrian pointed this out already, but hasn't gotten any traction...
>
I'll move the lib to /lib.

What other things are using it?  I can't seem to sort it out via grep 
unfortunately...

-Alfred



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