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Re: On libdb and shared libraries....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Mon Oct 28 14:01:38 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:00:02 -0500
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9610272249.AA13173@kangaroo.mit.edu>

>>>>> "Ezra" == Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU> writes:

Ezra> I like your suggestion.  Does anyone know of a reason why I
Ezra> should not explicitly link in the necessary libraries - either
Ezra> $(TOPLIBD)/libkrb5.a or $(TOPLIBD)/libkrb5.so? Will this break
Ezra> any platforms that people know of?

This may break Solaris, among other things.  If you don't use -l to
specify shared libraries, the path to the library is *hardcoded* as
being in the build tree.  Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH won't override it.
This is not acceptable.

---Tom

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