Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:58:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about files in /usr/lib Message-ID: <20011225145811.A901@tisys.org>
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Hi folks, I have a short question about the library files in /usr/lib. First of all, here's a piece of the output I get when doing ls -l /usr/lib: total 28480 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1206790 Dec 22 10:12 libc.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Dec 22 10:12 libc.so -> libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 573348 Dec 22 10:12 libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1309752 Sep 18 19:24 libc_p.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1440094 Dec 22 10:12 libc_pic.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1457880 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.so -> libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 676488 Dec 22 10:12 libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1579382 Sep 18 19:25 libc_r_p.a Now, here's the question: libc.a, libc.so.4 and others are dated 2001-12-22, which is the last time I did "make world" on my machine, so the date of these files makes sense. But what's up with libc_p.a, for example? That file is dated 2001-09-18, which is probably the day I installed 4.4-RELEASE on that given machine, or the day 4.4-RELEASE was built. So, the question: What is libc_p.a (and all the other September-dated _p.a files in /usr/lib) there for, why doesn't it get updated when doing "make world"? I guess there's a good reason for that - but since I don't even know why there is a libc_p.a file besides libc.a and libc.so.4, I don't know what this reason is. So, any explanations would be welcome ;-) Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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