From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 5:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39F637B405 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 05:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-162.wobline.de [212.68.69.170]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBPDvk831867 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:57:46 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBPDxpX65109 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:59:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBPDwFi00920 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:58:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:58:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about files in /usr/lib Message-ID: <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 2:52PM up 1:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I have a short question about the library files in /usr/lib. First of all, here's a piece of the output I get when doing ls -l /usr/lib: total 28480 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1206790 Dec 22 10:12 libc.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Dec 22 10:12 libc.so -> libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 573348 Dec 22 10:12 libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1309752 Sep 18 19:24 libc_p.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1440094 Dec 22 10:12 libc_pic.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1457880 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.so -> libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 676488 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1579382 Sep 18 19:25 libc_r_p.a Now, here's the question: libc.a, libc.so.4 and others are dated 2001-12-22, which is the last time I did "make world" on my machine, so the date of these files makes sense. But what's up with libc_p.a, for example? That file is dated 2001-09-18, which is probably the day I installed 4.4-RELEASE on that given machine, or the day 4.4-RELEASE was built. So, the question: What is libc_p.a (and all the other September-dated _p.a files in /usr/lib) there for, why doesn't it get updated when doing "make world"? I guess there's a good reason for that - but since I don't even know why there is a libc_p.a file besides libc.a and libc.so.4, I don't know what this reason is. So, any explanations would be welcome ;-) Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message