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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Binary format
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:58:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61002170758j3ae78e20q7b535489a509dd06@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ffee4ba13816a49a6360ce6668e65f2@quintile.net>

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> > And another important feature of shared libraries is, that when
> > some lib is updated, importing programs dont have to be recompiled.
> > What's the Plan9 solution here ?
>
> We recompile the relevant executables. The speed of kencc makes this
> much less painful than you might expect. It also happens very rarely
> on plan9 - I cannot remember the last time we had a "big" pull.


> It also neatly sidesteps the issue that different
> applications can need different versions of a single
> shared library. This is a real problem on some OSs
> (see 9fans passim).
>
>
The solution to needing different shared libraries for different
applications is of course to distribute them with the binary in a bundle,
which makes a lot less sense than just statically linking it to begin with.


> -Steve
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17 13:31 Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17  8:50 ` Jacob Todd
2010-02-17 13:58   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 14:01     ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-17 14:06 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-02-17 14:13   ` David Leimbach
2010-02-17 14:33   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 14:55     ` Steve Simon
2010-02-17 15:04       ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 15:29         ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-17 15:48         ` blstuart
2010-02-17 17:54           ` lucio
2010-02-17 18:37         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-02-17 19:00         ` Nick LaForge
2010-02-18 15:08         ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-17 15:58       ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-02-17 16:14       ` Stuart Morrow
2010-02-17 16:28         ` David Leimbach
2010-02-17 18:21           ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 18:34             ` David Leimbach
2010-02-17 19:02               ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 19:35                 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 18:38             ` Corey Thomasson
2010-02-18 15:16             ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-17 15:13     ` Robert Raschke
2010-02-17 21:32     ` Jacob Todd
2010-02-17 21:26   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-02-17 23:16     ` EBo
2010-02-17 23:22       ` David Leimbach
2010-02-17 14:38 ` blstuart
2010-02-17 14:58   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 15:25     ` blstuart

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