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From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: FreeBSD1.1R Shared Libs q's
Message-ID: <9417814.4311@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 04:34:58 GMT
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I have FreeBSD 1.1R installed (but not the source distribution - no room :-( )
and I'm wondering if there are any docs on using the shared lib system. I
can't find any on line.
Specifically, I want to know:
1 - How to build shared libs. ld -Bshareable ... seems to do the job, as the
ld man page suggests it should, however in the SunOS system it is necessary
to compile the object files as position independent code. Is this not
necessary here? (And why not?)
2 - What's the problem with C++ libs? I assume there is a problem, since
shared versions are not supplied.
3 - (May be related to 2, based on the contents of the symbol table...)
What's the "libgcc_pic.a" library for?
Thanks for any help,
Mark.
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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