From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 4 23:36:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17287 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles187.castles.com [208.214.165.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17221 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00495; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806050531.WAA00495@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Luoqi Chen cc: brandon@engulf.net, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp libalias In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:21:30 EDT." <199806050221.WAA15564@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:31:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Brandon Lockhart wrote: > > > > > I remember there was a discussion, I didn't think this pertained to me. > > > How do we fix this ppp libalias problem? > > > > The easiest work-around is to create a symlink "/usr/lib/libalias.so.2.5" > > that points to "/usr/lib/aout/libalias.so.2.5". > > I don't see any compelling reason why dynamic loading is really needed. > IMHO, this is just a bad programming practice. Plenty of good reasons, most of them related to size. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message