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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
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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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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