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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: PROBLEMS!! (FreeBSD 2.0) Date: 4 Mar 1995 12:35:06 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3j9mpq$9a7@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ivtr9$8bd@pluto.ucsb.edu> <3j6v3r$dlr@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3j6v3r$dlr@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > Sure, if you statically link the JPEG/TIFF/XPM libraries into the xv >binary itself. I think there is one xv FreeBSD binary distribution that >does that. Otherwise, why would you want to duplicate those routines in >each and every application that uses them? It makes more sense to load >library routines from a central archive. I think that some additional work will be soon going into package dependencies that flag this kind of thing and tell you what's needed. > My turn to gripe a little. :) The netpbm FreeBSD binaries archive >has all the correct symlinks in place (it is a merged compile), but it >is missing the actual executables! Now I have a bunch of symlinks in Fixed in -current. Jordan