Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

boyd would take out the machine pistol and wipe out a few pigeons.
i know i did when they insisted on terror on my sleep.  shared
libraries are worse!

brucee

On 4/19/06, uriel@cat-v.org <uriel@cat-v.org> wrote:
> > grafting shared libraries into plan9 will make presto go into a rage.
>
> I was going to say that the day Plan 9 gets shared libs I would shot
> myself.  But given how many fans I have in 9fans that might have
> motivated someone into actually implementing shard libs.
>
> So maybe more persuasive is the fact that it would make boyd spin in his
> grave until the Earth would end up torn to pieces.
>
> > that's a great addition to the loader, and relatively easy to implement.
>
> I like that idea too, simple and clean, I can't see any downsides.
>
> uriel
>
>
> P.S.: Unsurprisingly http://kencc.sf.net is nowhere to be seen in the SoC
> site either... *sigh* hey, who knows, maybe in a couple of years more
> we will have a website and a tarball for kencc!
>
>
> > i think it is important to have an install floppy.  or throw out machines
> > without CD drives.
> >
> > brucee
> >
> > On 4/19/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> 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 later,
> >> and perhaps not in quite the same way (i don't know).
>
>