Re: Problem confirmed (?) and death to lib[h]disk (!) (Re: serious libh linking problems)

The Anarcat <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:27:20 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.libh
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu Nov 14, 2002 at 11:48:21AM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake The Anarcat ([email protected]):
> 
> > Can't you just drop libhdisk from the build? I think it needs to die
> > anyways. I doubt anything really depends on it apart from the disk
> > editor. If you agree, I'll start getting libh free of libhdisk. We'll
> > have to rewrite the disk editor, but I don't see that as a problem at
> > all.
> 
> I was about to just delete the functions that are no longer supported.
> However, I don't know how far we use, for example, the clone() function,
> which is also accessible from within TCL.

Fine with me. I don't remember using the clone() function from tcl.
 
> I #ifdef'ed other functions to return 0 instead on -current, since
> e.g. MakeDev() etc aren#t needed on -CURRENT which has devfs.

Great.

> I'd like to RIP all the RELENG_4 stuff at least, that way we can still
> have a more or less working libdisk.

Do whatever is needed to get this thing to build.

A.

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