Re: [sleuthkit-developers] Some questions

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

On Jun 20, 2006, at 7:37 PM, kenshin wrote:

> I'm interesting in develop sleuthkit and I have some questions ...
>
> Why do you want to use static executables?
> Why do you not use shared libraries?

By default, the executables use shared libraries and are not static.   
There is the option for static binaries so that you can use them for  
live analysis and not have to rely on untrusted libraries.

> Why do you use "cd dir; make" instead "make -C dir" ?

They have the same effect don't they?  Is 'make -C dir' only in GNU  
or is it also in BSD make?

> Why have "src/fstools/" filesystems and tools to analyze? I thinks  
> that is better
> put filesystems in src/fs/ and tools in src/fstools/

Yea, I could separate the library code from the tools one of these days.

> Why do you compile the comand file,md5,sha1? (a normal system have  
> its)
> Has anyone interesting in reiserfs development?

As someone else said, it forces a consistent version of the tools to  
exist.  Different systems have different output formats.

brian