Subject: Re: Walnut Creek and BSDI merged
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 03/13/2000 11:05:58
In message <20000313120433.A2244@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>i recognized that almost at once, but it still struck me as weird. i
>tend to think along the lines of "things in /sbin are completely
>self-contained, using nor needing any external help".
Yeah, it's a common expectation.
>>It was bizarre, and it's long gone. 'cc' is 'egcs'.
>and is everything still build statically by default?
Yes, see below.
>>Of course, they still have the weirdest shared library scheme I've ever
>>seen; the system shared libs are shared, but are *NOT* dynamically linked,
>>so they've got special magic to use maps. You can use dynamic versions
>>of 'em, but they recommend the static shared libs, because they're
>>apparently faster.
>oh...is *that* why everything i was building seemed to be ending up
>static? (whimper)
Yup. Performance hack. Fairly good one, actually, once you know about
it.
-s