From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 21 15: 2:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A3C37B401; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5LM2gP8034675; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.4/8.12.3/Submit) id g5LM2fg5034674; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:02:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, "David O'Brien" , ru@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: recent bsd.lib.mk changes Message-ID: <20020621150241.A34548@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org References: <200206211429.33406.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020621132839.A68827@dragon.nuxi.com> <200206211746.17877.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200206211746.17877.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:46:17PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:46:17PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > = I can think of very few reasons to build a .so, but not a .a. Some > = people do like to build static binaries. > > And some people are the opposite. However, for loadable (as in dlopen(3)) > plugins, suchs Tcl modules the static libraries are useless at best. I said "few", not "none". > Why can't we have some way to explicitly list what is and what is not > needed? Feel free to send a patch adding "ONLYSHAREDLIBS". "INTERNALLIB" in no logical way I can think of would lead someone to think that only shared libs should be built and they should be installed. > By this logic, we don't need to install the bsd.*.mk files at all... If you want "cd /usr/src/bin/foo && make all install" to work, you need to have the installed in /usr/share/mk. > Note, that they are not even called freebsd.*.mk -- to me, the names > implies they are (more or less) consistens among all of the BSDs :-) They started life when there was but _1_ BSD and that one was from CSRG @ UCB. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message