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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Fri Oct 22 08:09:27 PDT 2010


The list I have is:

     libplot, lib300, lib300s, lib4014, lib450, libvt0

I'm not aware of any others at the moment.

	- Garrett


On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 09:26 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> 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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