Argh.  Who builds against that library???

Anyway the way I handled this in illumos core is to punt the library into a 
separate consolidation.  Distros that need it could then install.  

It sounds like this example needs to be rebuilt against libc. 

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> On Nov 6, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss wrote:
>> 
>> We have a few things (many things) which have probably out lived their 
>> usefulness.
>> 
>> 1. I submit the ability to run a.out (COFF) binaries from SunOS 4.x — which 
>> only ever worked on SPARC — is one of them.  Indeed, we can barely manage to 
>> keep SPARC itself alive, trying to retain this legacy is pretty much 
>> impossible — I don’t think we can even really test it anymore. (I long ago 
>> lost all my SunOS 4.x binaries!!)  I therefore propose removing this 
>> capability.
>> 
>> 2. I submit furthermore, that the ability to run even binaries linked 
>> against libucb is no longer really useful.  Indeed, we can’t compile such 
>> binaries anymore, and haven’t been able to do so for a while.  I therefore 
>> suggest that the time is ripe (past due!) for removal of this library — 
>> which really existed to facilitate source compatibility with SunOS 4.x.  
>> (I.e. stuff made obsolete 20 years ago!)
> 
> On my Solaris 10 system, I see that the Emulex fiber channel utilities (an 
> add-on package) are linked with libucb.so.1.  If libucb.so.1 was removed, the 
> utilities would not work any more.
> 
> Given that existing binaries (not necessarily prepared by the end-user) are 
> depending on this library, perhaps it is better to provide the run-time 
> library but not the development headers required to make additional use of it.
> 
> Bob
> -- 
> Bob Friesenhahn
> [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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