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From: mharm@pollux.usc.edu (Michael Harm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] basic shared lib questions
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Date: 10 Dec 92 19:22:00 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Hi folks. Basic questions about shared libraries in 386bsd.
I'm looking to get a 486 system to run 386bsd on, and need
to judge how much disk space I need. Since I plan to run X
on the thing, shared libraries impact heavily on my disk space
considerations.
Apparently someone has implemented shared libs for 386bsd.
The questions are:
1) how easy/hard is it to get/install?
2) has anyone produced Xfree86 binaries compiled for
shared libs (or will this be made available soon?)
Failing this, how easy/hard is it to compile the sources
oneself, using shared libs?
3) How much disk space are we looking at for bsd, all extensions,
and X using shared libs?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Mike Harm
mharm@pollux.usc.edu
Univ of Southern California
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