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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:16:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   <bsd.lib.mk> = Cool!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.961103160540.12236A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>

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Wow, I just "discovered" the make stuff in /usr/share/mk -- very cool. I
was trying to install CVSup, which required the libz library (in shared
format). I went and ftp'ed the /usr/src/lib/libz/* stuff from freefall,
and did a make.. it produced the libz.a and libz_p.a files. I took a look
at the makefile (I wanted a .so, but had no idea how to go about this) and
noticed the include of bsd.lib.mk on the last line of the Makefile.

So I did a find and located it, and after readin the README, I saw the
light and understood what was happening here! I also noticed from
examining the bsd.lib.mk makefile that I just needed to make a
$(.CURDIR)/shlib_version directoy and I'd get my shared lib library!!
Happy happy was I! 

It all worked out, I learned something about BSD, and now I'm CVSupping
the RELENG_2_2 tree to start poking around and helping out with finding
some bugs.. Super! Everyday I like FreeBSD (and BSD in general) more and
more -- congrats to everyone involved, I've never had so much fun with a
computer!! 

Just a happy little note from a satisfied user.

cya,
-Mark

P.S. I'm spending every free minute I have trying to learn more about
FreeBSD, C, and Unix in general so I can contribute to the project.
Hopefully I'll be useful sometime in the not-so-distant future  :-)

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| Mark Mayo		mark@quickweb.com |
| RingZero Comp.  	www.quickweb.com  |
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"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."
		- L. Peter Deutsch




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