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Re: On libdb and shared libraries....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Mon Oct 28 14:49:58 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:48:29 -0500
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>, Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>,
        "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9610281944.AA08243@dcl.MIT.EDU>

>>>>> "Ted" == "Theodore Y Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

Ted> Grumble... and on some other platforms, using -L will cause the
Ted> path to the shared library to be hardcoded in the build tree.

What platforms might these be?  And do they support "-R"?

Ted> It's beginning to sound like we need a shell script to abstract
Ted> away the concept of "how to link an executable", which will do
Ted> different things depending on the !@#! operating system.

Yes, that is a distrubing possibility... but one that may be necessary
because of how complex our build process is.

---Tom

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