From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190604180946s5dbd2fb4yd42bc42cc509274c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:46:30 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4444FB77.6020203@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3ab4e6be-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 that's a great addition to the loader, and relatively easy to implement. grafting shared libraries into plan9 will make presto go into a rage. i think it is important to have an install floppy. or throw out machines without CD drives. brucee On 4/19/06, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > There were linkers written, long ago, that would extract only the code > > from a library that was used by a program, and the binary got pretty > > we do that in inferno's 5l. richard miller implemented it originally in = 5l > but the changes vanished with the business unit and we redid it years lat= er, > and perhaps not in quite the same way (i don't know).