[6447] in SIPB bug reports
Re: The 3d Athena Widget Set installed in the sipb locker.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Ucko)
Sun Aug 10 18:27:42 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Aaron Ucko <amu@MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 1997 17:24:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:33:24 -0400
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I have only installed static libraries. I did not install shared
> libraries because shared libraries are messy. (For example, if you
> linked a program with a shared library in the sipb locker, I don't
> know, what would happen if you tried to run the program without the
> sipb locker attached. I'm not even convinced it would work if the
> sipb locker was attached.)
ELF, which Linux, Suns, and SGIs all use, allows you to specify a list
of additional directories to search for shared libraries. I know
basically nothing about how NetBSD deals with (native) shared libs.
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