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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: libc.a replaced with libsys.a in 2.0
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Date: 2 Jan 91 17:11:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jan2.142229.27450@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
#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.

Why not just make a link from libsys.a to libc.a?

Ronald

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