docs/76056: /usr/lib entry in hier(7) man page

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR docs/76056; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: "Enrique Mat?as S?nchez (Quique)" <cronopios at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/76056: /usr/lib entry in hier(7) man page
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:46:01 +0200

 On 2005-01-10 16:37, "Enrique Mat?as S?nchez (Quique)" <cronopios at gmail.com> wrote:
 >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:15:06 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 >>> I don't really understand the /usr/lib entry in the hier man page:
 >>>
 >>>     lib/        archive libraries
 >>
 >> Libraries *are* 'archives'.  Archives of object files.
 >
 > I just found a webpage
 > (http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90655/ch05s01.html) about HP-UX
 > explaining that there are two types of libraries: shared and archive
 > libraries.  Archive libraries are indeed archives of object files
 > created with the ar command.
 >
 > I am not a programmer, and didn't know about that; therefore my confusion.
 >
 >> The description of hier(7) is a bit terse, but it is true IMHO.
 >
 > Absolutelly.
 >
 > Maybe it should be explained somewhere what an archive library is? The
 > handbook does not explain about it.
 
 I can change the description of /usr/lib to:
 
 	lib/	   shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries
 
 Does this seem a good way to point the reader to ar(1) -- where a good
 explanation of what archive libraries are can be found?