Subject: lib{m,gcc}.so.?.? To: None <> From: Dirk Steinberg <>
List: current-users Date: 02/04/1994 12:33:37  is there any
special reason (am I missing something obvious?) why there is no
and I build these by commenting out the NOPIC= line in the
respective Makefiles and copying a shlib_version file to these
dirs.  I also compiled and linked a few progs with these, and
everything works just fine:  root@porty:p0 /etc # ldd
/usr/src/bin/ps/ps         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/ (0x10020000)
-lkvm.0 => /usr/lib/ (0x1002a000)         -lgcc.0 => /usr/lib/
(0x10031000)         -lc.4 => /usr/lib/ (0x10035000)  I also
noticed that these libs were present in FreeBSD. So what's the
deal? Are people afraid of runtime linking overhead? So am I,
but thats inherent to the scheme used (that's why I prefer the
Linux solution: much faster when you have many large libs).
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