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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:43:47 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c
Message-ID:  <20021115194347.GG50692@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211151925.gAFJPsgh037805@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211151103440.46823-100000@root.org> <200211151925.gAFJPsgh037805@apollo.backplane.com>

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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [021115 11:25] wrote:
> :Time Kientzle has offered to build something similar to NetBSD's dynamic
> :/[s]bin and lukem has sent us some info on his work.  Let me know if
> :anyone is duplicating effort here.
> :
> :-Nate
> 
>     I've made really excellent progress.  I moved my link line adjustments
>     to /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk and enable everything via a make.conf
>     variable, plus a variable in /usr/src/bin/*/Makefile that tells 
>     bsd.prog.mk that a particular program can safely be built with mini-C.
> 
>     I'll have a patch set to throw out at everyone in an hour or two.
>     I just need to get it to work with a few more bin/ programs and
>     translate it to -current.

Will the knobs allow one to link /bin and /sbin against full blown
libc?  That would be nice as we can then start using pam and user
management in / with dynamic modules (finally!).

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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