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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: libc.a replaced with libsys.a in 2.0
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Date: 2 Jan 91 14:22:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jan2.125711.6400@cs.umn.edu> kirchner@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Roger B. Kirchner) writes:

>libc.a is not shipped with release 2.0.  All routines contained in
>libc.a are also contained in the shared library libsys.a which should
>be used instead of libc.a.

It's too bad they didn't just rename libsys.a to libc.a and be done with it.
That way people won't have to diddle various makefiles that have an explicit
'-lc' on the linker invokation.

louie