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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 28 Nov 1996 11:05:54 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57jrmi$pfd@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57hq0l$3rp@anorak.utell.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90699 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1615 brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > : What about old .o files? Old dynamic libraries? Old archive libraries? > : > : How do you compile using those? > : > > You can't compile old objects/libraries with new objects/libraries and > expect to get a working binary at the end. Think about it - your header > files aren't the same ! You can, as long as your library comes with header files that are self-contained. (I.e., they leave things like off_t to the system headers and don't use them.) Libraries that are not self-contained are poorly written anyway, in particular for the projected target market where the library is to be taken ``as is'' without any chance of a recompilation. There's always one hack more... -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j