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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh 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 Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr29015922@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <179NBN2L@math.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com 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