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From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I create shared libraries for FreeBSD?
Date: 29 Apr 1994 00:59:22 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de's message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 17:59:19 GMT

In article <179NBN2L@math.fu-berlin.de> gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Shadow) writes:
   /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk but found only a -Bsharable option. However
   this didn't decrease the size of my library (I don't have the sources
   for FreeBSD libraries, so I can't investigate. 

Garrett has already explained that -Bshareable is correct, but just to
correct a misconception here - a shared library is NOT smaller, it's
the applications you link WITH it that are supposed to get smaller!
:-)

					Jordan