Subject: Re: rebuilding libkvm
To: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/17/1997 12:15:59
On 17 Jun 1997, Chris Jones wrote:

> However, they bring up a question I've had for quite a while:  Why is
> it really necessary to rebuild libkvm?

The most common culprit is a size change in the ``proc'' structure.  The
proc structure contains many other sub-structures.  A change of size in
any of them instantly requires a re-compile of libkvm.

-J