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- From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Shared lib benchmarks, and experiences
- Date: 14 Dec 92 08:11:54 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- In <1gdnvrINNp80@life.ai.mit.edu> ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) writes:
-
- >In article <veit.724064215@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de writes:
- >>You see this from the Linux hacker's aspect only. There are many people
- >>who cannot afford recompiling anything from scratch any time, but want
- >>to have binaries. This is crucial in particular for X11. We already have
- >>different versions of X11 out (without shared libraries), what we certainly
- >>do not need are different versions of applications and libraries, such that
- >>every new program brings in its special set of shared libs. You may distribute
- >>object files, to be linked at the local system, but there are even people
- >>out there who do not have the space of ~7MB for kernel sources and objects
- >>available; they run into problems with for instance a XServer Link kit as well.
-
- > Perhaps you do not understand. The way our libraries are made, you can
- >just drop a new version into the /lib directory, and add a symlink, and you are
- >ready to run the same binaries with the new sharable library. There is no need
- >to relink, and you can delete the old version of the sharable library any time
- >you wish.
-
- Oh, I think I do understand what is going on. The problem is, that I am not
- talking about the way shared libs are implemented in Linux, but about the
- current hack that is regarded as "shared libraries" in 386bsd. Throwing in
- different methods here is IMO not a good idea in a general forum, since it
- tends to confuse the, I will say here, "not so frequently reading user".
- This does not mean that the Linux method will not be examined carefully, but
- it is much too early to decide which is the best method. The unmodified
- current version is at least surely not the best.
-
- >-Eric
-
- Holger
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