From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 6:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4723E37B41A for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 06:36:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-21-136.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.136]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA28479; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 08:36:20 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011225083617.01691728@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 08:36:17 -0600 To: Julio Merino , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Question about files in /usr/lib In-Reply-To: <20011225152007.A86639@klamath.local> References: <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org> <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 hmmmm.... I have those too and if they are NOT necessary, I would like to eliminate them on future makes too. Please, what is the URL of that Handbook page so I may read it carefully before changing my make.conf.... thanks! At 03:20 PM 12.25.2001 +0100, Julio Merino wrote: >On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> 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. > >These are profiled libraries. I never install them, and I don't want >them on my system, so I have NOPROFILE=true in /etc/make.conf. You may >have ran make with an argument like that, as stated in the handbook. > >This is useful because profiled libraries are hardly used and they take >a lot of time to build. > >HTH > >> 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 > >-- >La ignorancia es la felicidad. > >Julio Merino (Slink) > >Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Re Question about files in us" > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message