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. Sent from my iPhone > 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/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
