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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: Dynamic linking
- Message-ID: <14530@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 21:49:11 GMT
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- >However, it only runs under BSD flavours of UNIX at the moment, as
- >I recall; I don't think it is likely to support ELF or other library
- >formats in the foreseeable future (according to Wilson).
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- For most, if not all, purposes, you don't need a port of any third-party
- dynamic linking code to ELF; any system that I'd consider worthy of the
- name "System V Release 4" has the "-ldl" library. (Yes, there are
- probably things you can't do with it, but there are things you can; for
- example, the Andrew Toolkit can use "-ldl" on systems that have it.)
-