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From: Don Whiteside <freelist@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu>
To: mikebo@tellabs.com
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Subject: Re: FBSD v2.0.5: shared libraries - HOW TO...?
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On Wed, 13 Sep 1995 mikebo@tellabs.com wrote:

> Is there any documentation of the Shared Library system employed by
> FreeBSD? For instance... I want to be able to replace a routine in
> the standard libc, but there doesn't appear to be any instructions on
> "how to" rebuild the shared libraries - as there is in SunOS
> /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README. There ought to be a simpler way to do this
> than "make"ing the entire libc from source. I only want to replace 
> one module!

I believe what you want is 'man ar'