From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 7:43:53 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 2EE7E37B419 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 07:43:49 -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 JAA07238; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:43:43 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011225094340.01691728@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 09:43:40 -0600 To: Julio Merino , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Question about files in /usr/lib - ooops! 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> 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 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 >>> >>> 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 > > 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