Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:51:06 +0100 as excerpted: >> Are there any less obvious ones > > Some that you may find are: > /lib/libm.so > /lib/libsocket.so > /lib/libpthread.so > /lib/libnsl.so > > On a side note, we have a question about this in our > prefix-ebuild-quiz[1] (question 5 from the second section).
> I think there's unfortunately no simple way to tell what should be in > and what unfortunately has to be out. It depends a lot on the host > system. I feel -- but I can't back this up with hard evidence -- that > it are usually the libs that are not in *DEPEND that can only be > available in the host system. Basically because they usually are part > of the libc, which we assume to be installed. > > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/prefix-quiz Thanks again. That quiz was particularly enlightening (to this gentoo, not prefix, user) on the type of stuff you think about, as a part of what prefix /does/. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
