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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:43:40 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about files in /usr/lib - ooops!
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20011225094340.01691728@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011225083617.01691728@mail.sage-american.com>
References:  <20011225152007.A86639@klamath.local> <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org> <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org>

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Oooops! I already have NOPROFILE=true in my make.conf, so then what real
effect does it have on these directories/files..???? After seeing the other
poster (Nils), apparrently none....

At 08:36 AM 12.25.2001 -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
>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
>>> 
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>>
>>-- 
>>La ignorancia es la felicidad.
>>
>>Julio Merino (Slink) <juli@merino.net>
>>
>>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
>
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>

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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