[illumos-Developer] clean up stale libplot and friends (lib300, etc.)

Peter Tribble peter.tribble at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 01:26:13 PDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> This is covered in bug 364: https://www.illumos.org/issues/364
>
> This EOF would *potentially* break some applications, but I am unaware
> of any applications which use any of these libraries.  Carrying this
> bitrotten code around just for the "sake" of binary compatibility
> without any known consumers of it, seems ridiculous to me.   Technically
> this would have been harder to remove under PSARC rules at Sun, but I
> think we can do better here.
>
> Can anyone think of *any* reason we should keep these libraries around?

Are we just talking about libplot.so? (Which just has 32 and 64 bit variants.)
Presumably lib300 et al - can you give a complete list of files you propose to
remove?

Is anything in Solaris linked against libplot?

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