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

[Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique)]

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

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Enrique_Mat=EDas_S=E1nchez_=28Quique=29?= <cronopios at gmail.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/76056: /usr/lib entry in hier(7) man page
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:58:16 +0100

 On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:46:01 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
 <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
  
 > >> 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.
  
 > > 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?
 
 Yes! That sounds just nice :-)
 
 Thank you,
  Quique
 
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