From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 5 14:00:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17383 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17369 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA40131; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:57:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199901052157.QAA40131@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Polstra cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Suffix change for PIC object files References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:52:36 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:57:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want to commit a change which I believe will have zero impact on > anybody. The change is broad in scope, so I thought I'd better check > to make sure it won't cause unanticipated problems. > > What I want to do is modify and a couple of assorted > Makefiles, to change the filename suffix for PIC object files used in > building shared libraries from ".so" to ".So". The reason is that > the existing suffix conflicts with the standard suffix for shared > libraries that are loaded with dlopen(). One example of that is PAM > modules. Even ignoring PAM, we can expect to see more and more use of > dlopen() in our tree as time goes on. Sounds OK to me, for all that means. I'd suggest that it might be useful for the 'clean' target to nuke the old suffix for a while. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message