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Re: libiberty.so not built in binutils
- To: Cyrille Artho <cartho at mordor dot ch>
- Subject: Re: libiberty.so not built in binutils
- From: Philip Blundell <pb at labs dot futuretv dot com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:40:11 +0100
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <398973ED.3E23C9DE@mordor.ch>
In message <398973ED.3E23C9DE@mordor.ch>, Cyrille Artho writes:
>What is the easiest way to convert the static library to a dynamic one?
Rebuild libiberty by hand, configuring with --enable-shared.
>And why not include the dynamic version, too, in future releases?
Several packages (binutils, GCC etc) ship with different versions of
libiberty that are not necessarily quite compatible. If a shared library was
to be used then all libiberty's users would have to agree on its interface.
By using a static library each program gets the code it expects and all is
well.
p.