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From: plm@atcmp.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: ELF, dynamic loading and Perl 5.000
In-Reply-To: jbettis@cse.unl.edu's message of 11 Nov 1994 20:39:13 GMT
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 15:27:51 GMT

>> On 11 Nov 1994 20:39:13 GMT, jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis) said:

  JB> I see (from the examples that you erased), that building shared
  JB> libraries are a heck of a lot easier. What other reasons are
  JB> there for moving to elf?

It is also much easier to build *compatble* shared libraries. Look at
the XFree 2.x vs. 3.x problem where the libraries could not be kept
compatible. With ELF that would not have been the case. So also simple
users who do not build shared libraries themselves will benefit from
ELF.
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