From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 27 11:42:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29452 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29408; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17779; Wed, 27 May 1998 19:40:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805271840.TAA17779@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/etc rc src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 23:06:40 +0200." <199805262106.XAA27629@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:40:36 +0100 From: Brian Somers Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA29430 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In reply to Garrett Wollman who wrote: > > < said: > > > > > This will after a make world & reboot give a system that no > > > longer uses /usr/lib/*, infact one could remove all the old > > > libraries there, they are not used anymore. > > > > Except for all the inconvenient third-party software... > > Well, there is no real solution for that I'm afraid.. > > At runtime shared libs wil be resolved via rtld which knows > where to look for libs. > > Systems that rely on libs being in /usr/lib via hard path will > fail, ie Makefiles with a wired in hard path, we can then argue > to death who is broken... > > Another story is what we are going to do with /usr/local/lib :( Any ideas for /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/loadalias.c ? It dlopen()s and dlsym()s with a fixed path prefix. Cheers. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message