SUMMARY: statically linked route

From: Martin Fredriksson (eremf@ere.ericsson.se)
Date: Fri Aug 13 1993 - 01:42:43 CDT


Hello, and Thank You again, Managers!

I asked for a statically linked version of route, to put in /sbin.

Answers:

(1) Several people mailed me the source (route.c) from a package
called "Xkernel". The most recent version I received (I beleive) was
from Xkernel-1.5 (From: Tim Rosmus <tim@mdd.comm.mot.com>). The
Xkernal package is available from sol.ctr.columbia.edu:/Xkernel
(probably from other places too, but this is where several people have
refered to). John Allen of the NERSC has an interesting point (observe
the ID strings...):

> From: u2712@nersc.gov (John Allen)
> To: eremf@ere.ericsson.se
> Subject: Re: statically linked route
> I asked Sun the same question about a statically linked version
> of route for the same reason. I ended up using the route.c
> from the Xkernel package on ftp.ctr.columbia.edu /Xkernel/Xkernel.shar.
> It looks very similar to the Sun one and has worked for me on
> 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3.
>
> SunOS 4.1.2: "route.c 1.13 88/08/04 SMI"
> Xkernel: "route.c 1.12 88/03/02 SMI"
>
> A nameless person pointed this out to me. I assume the folks at
> Columbia have their legal ducks in a row to distribute this.
>
> John jallen@nersc.gov

(2) Some people referred to the BSD source, freely FTPable from
somewhere (I don't know from where?).

(3) Several people mentioned that I could move the libraries on whith
route depends to a local /usr/lib and then use the dynamically linked
version of route. (Special thanks to "Donald A. MacLeod"
<dmacleod@mailbox.syr.edu> for the 'suinstall' script which helps in
installing WS with my problem.) I have used this solution, but I like
to minimize the stuff on the local disk. I find it a "cleaner"
solution with a static rdist.

(4) One person (From: john@mlb.semi.harris.com (John M. Blasik))
mentioned that he got if from Sun. (Thanks John, but I'll try the
Xkernel route first.) I guess this means that Sun does provide us with
this, at least under som circumstances?

My plan is that we go with the Xkernel route.c. I haven't had time to
test this yet; I summarize anyway since I'm off for a two weeks
mountain hike this saturday. When I get back, it's hopefully installed
and running!

Thanks all who have helped me with this!

Martin Fredriksson, System Manager Unix Systems
Ericsson Radar Electronics AB, Molndal, Sweden



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