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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

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