Re: Shared library compilation

[Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh at usa dot net>]

At 05:35 AM 2/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Inconsistencies and Ambiguities are not a consequence of problem 1, but
>of human error (eg creating libs with ld instead of gcc at a future time)

If you can create libs with both, someone will create libs with both;
Finagle's law. The argument you gave above is also used to "justify" making
printer cables that fit equally well the right and wrong way round in their
sockets and sticking a warning note about checking the cable orientation in
the bottom right corner of the page full of legal information that nobody
ever reads :-)

>Creation of a new crt shared object on new os release comes to mind.
>Who's gonna remember to do that????  (Remember, this isn't the
>egcs crt files, but the os's)

Why bother with that? Just change the linker as needed and tell people to
compile a .so version of their os's crt.o. Or make a little script to do it
for them. Assuming they have the crt sources for their os, which they
should. Under DJGPP it's in the djlsr archive; under the various unices it
comes with the kernel and base installation package.


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