[2916] in Release_Engineering
Re: layering bites back...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris VanHaren)
Thu Aug 13 12:39:53 1992
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>, rel-eng@MIT.EDU, jon@MIT.EDU,
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:39:31 BST
> I thought the RS/6000's had shared libraries? Why don't the 3rd-party
> apps use these? Seems that would be an easy way to fix the problem...
>
> John
Yep, it does have shired libs. However, I think that third-party
vendors typically don't like to ship things that aren't statically
linked -- it is much easier to keep the program in a known state, for
testing, bug-reports, etc. Also, they sometimes tweak libraries for
performance or whatever, so they need to include their own...
-C.
