Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*

[Rilindo Foster]

Well, as a footnote, I went right ahead and patched the machine, then
did make buildworld, installworld, make kernel, install kernel. . . . .
and so far, everything is a-okay. :D


On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 03:17, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 21), Mark said:
> > Pardon my daftness, but how is a 'file' against, say, httpd, like this,
> > 
> > file /usr/local/sbin/httpd
> > /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> > 
> > going to tell me whether httpd was dynamically linked against
> > OpenSSL, or statically? It just tells me httpd uses shared libraries.
> > Or does it mean it ONLY uses shared libraries?
> 
> You can also use the "ldd" command to list the specific shlibs linked
> by a program, but you can usually assume that if it's dynamically
> linked, it has dynamically linked all its libraries too. 
> Theoretically, a program could have linked directly to
> /usr/lib/libssl.a, but most of the time they just use -lssl, which will
> prefer shared libraries over static.
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