(dynamically) linking on FreeBSD

Hi there, I came across something I don't understand: Building Firefox from the original sources failed because it had the linker options "-z defs" set while in the compiled code standard functions from libc like malloc, free, fprintf a.s.o. were used. Removing this flag, compiling worked and t

lock order reversal

>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator:Duane Whitty >Organization: >Confidential: no >Synopsis: lock order reversal >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Category: kern >Class: sw-bug >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386 >Environment: System: FreeBSD d

failed to install kernel

There seems to be a recurrent problem, at least in 6.1, of sysinstall not installing the kernel: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-May/122261.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/124096.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-que