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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: where is libc.a?
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Date: 24 Feb 91 19:37:03 GMT
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In article <1991Feb24.165644.10032@solo.csci.unt.edu> gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu  
(Gene De Lisa) writes:
> I just tried to install perl and the Config script couldn't
> find the C library. Sure enough I cannot find libc.a either.
> Is it libg.a because it's gcc?
> 
> (2.0 on a slab)
From the developer's release notes concerning the 2.0 NeXT Operating System
Software available on-line with 2.0 extended:
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/OperatingSystem.rtf 

The following new features have been added to the libsys library since Release  
1.0.

7	The static version of the libc library (a subset of libsys) does not  
exist on release 2.0.  The linker now links all programs with the libsys shared  
library by default.

[and later...]

7	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.  libc.a is not shipped because as a normal archive it is  
impossible for improvements and system interface changes made to library  
routines to be applicable to existing applications without those applications  
being relinked.  Applications referencing shared libraries, because they are  
bound at runtime, always access the most recent release.  Release 1.0  
applications linked against libc.a may not be compatible with release 2.0 until  
they are relinked with libsys.a.



Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)


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