On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:46:17PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > = I can think of very few reasons to build a .so, but not a .a. Some > = people do like to build static binaries. > > And some people are the opposite. However, for loadable (as in dlopen(3)) > plugins, suchs Tcl modules the static libraries are useless at best.
I said "few", not "none". > Why can't we have some way to explicitly list what is and what is not > needed? Feel free to send a patch adding "ONLYSHAREDLIBS". "INTERNALLIB" in no logical way I can think of would lead someone to think that only shared libs should be built and they should be installed. > By this logic, we don't need to install the bsd.*.mk files at all... If you want "cd /usr/src/bin/foo && make all install" to work, you need to have the installed in /usr/share/mk. > Note, that they are not even called freebsd.*.mk -- to me, the names > implies they are (more or less) consistens among all of the BSDs :-) They started life when there was but _1_ BSD and that one was from CSRG @ UCB. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
