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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ld & PIC & bsd.lib.mk question
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:54:54 GMT
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Petr Kodl <pecold@rockwell.cz> wrote:

> Could anyone explain meaning of the following step in
> <bsd.lib.mk>
> 
> ..cc.so .C.so:
>         ${CXX} ${PICFLAG} -DPIC ${CXXFLAGS} -c ${.IMPSRC} -o ${.TARGET}
>         @${LD} -x -r ${.TARGET}
>         @mv a.out ${.TARGET}
> 
> Is it necessary to call the ld to process the object, or is it just
> some step speeding up further file processing ?

It seems like it's there to strip local symbols from the .so file,
so they won't bloat the shared library.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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