From: dirkst@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg) Subject: Re: find 3.7 and fileutils 3.3 uploaded Date: 28 Jul 1992 15:04:26 GMT
faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith) writes:
>Here is a synopsis of my new uploads, as of Mon Jul 27 10:50:50 1992
>Bug reports and comments to: faith@cs.unc.edu
>*bin.tar.Z: linked static with gcc 2.2.2 (release version) under 0.96c.pl2
^^^^^^
I think it is a bad practice to upload static binaries. They are totally
useless for anyone who does not want to waste massive amounts of disk space.
I have both Linux 0.96cpl2 and 386BSD 0.1 installed on my 486 and I prefer
to use LINUX because it is more efficient and faster and it has shared
libraries (and because gdb-4.6 and X386-1.2E work). The shared libraries
are the single most biggest plus in favor of Linux, especially when it comes
to X.
We should always use the latest official gcc release shared images for
uploading binaries. Starting from next release, these will be based on
jump-tables anyway. If you really want, you can include /lib/libc.2.2.2
in your tar file; for larger programs, this will get you to about the same
total size.
Alternatively, you could upload *.a's, but that requires the user to have
gcc installed.
>--
>Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu
Dirk
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