[618] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Problems related to setting up anon FTP.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Vogels)
Fri Feb 14 21:01:53 1992
To: Pat_Barron@transarc.com
Cc: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Feb 92 16:19:02 EST."
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:57:49 +0000
From: Werner Vogels <werner@freya.inesc.pt>
> Another alternative is to get sources for these programs (sources for
> "ls" and "compress" are available on ftp.uu.net in the "bsd-sources"
> directory, and the source for GNU tar is available on
> prep.ai.mit.edu), and link them with "-Bstatic".
>
> The SunOS versions of these programs need access to /dev/zero because
> they use the SunOS shared library facility. Linking with "-Bstatic"
> avoids this problem.
>
> --Pat.
No, I'm sorry but I already tried this, the access to /dev/zero is made from
crt0.o, and this gets linked in always.
Werner.
