Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 18:53:08 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, asami@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Message-ID: <199610100153.SAA00473@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 07:17:24 %2B0930." <199610092147.HAA22166@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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> > The FreeBSD package (ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current) requires the > > Modula Package be installed first. This seems rediculus, as it should be > > statically linked. > ... > But it would be nice if "make package" statically linked in the modula > library.. Quickly looking at the make package target the only way it > seems to do this is if the port statically links with the modula bits. I understand the point you two are making, but I don't support the idea of making the package statically linked. It would save having to download and install the big modula-3 package, but it would also increase the size of the cvsup package from 0.25 MB to 1.5 MB. That's a win the first time, but once you've got modula-3 installed, it's a lose after that for new versions of cvsup. As a general rule, we use dynamic linking and shared libraries on FreeBSD, unless there's a compelling reason not to. Ports that depend on tcl and tk also use shared libraries. (I know, tcl is now a standard part of the system. But that only became true relatively recently.) I realize that there is a big difference in scale here, i.e., the modula-3 installation is large. That's why I also make statically linked CVSup binaries available. If the problem is the disk space you need to keep modula-3 on line (as opposed to building it in the first place), then here is one idea. You could install modula-3, and then delete everything but its shared libraries. Be careful, though. The shared libraries in /usr/local/lib/m3/FreeBSD2 are symbolic links to the actual files. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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