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From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD: is it save to use rdist linked dynamically
Date: 20 Jun 1994 13:42:01 GMT
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I'm just about to use rdist to update a friends FreeBSD system.

As there will be new shared libraries, the questions comes
into my mind if it is save to use the dynamic linked executable
or if it _IS_ necessary too use the static one. 

As I don't want to run into trouble, I added Makefile.inc whith 

NOSHARED?= YES

to the rdist-source-subdirectory and build the whole thing static. 
The binaries don't differ too much in size

static linked executable             48820 Jun 20 15:27 obj/rdist
dynamic linked executable            45056 Jun 14 12:48 /usr/bin/rdist

so that the static option could be used as default.

Has anybody got experience with this kind of update??


Andreas
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