Shared vs Static [WAS: Re: [general] some ideas & request for comments (LONG)]

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed May 17 05:19:00 GMT 2000


--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> NOTE: Are you suggesting, Earnie, that binutils be further hacked to
> search for the following in the '-Bdynamic' case:
> 
> 'libfoo.dll' 'libfoo.dll.a' (and 'foo.dll' and 'foo.dll.a' for
> consistency), and THEN as an absolutely last fallback, 'libfoo.a'
> 
> In '-Bstatic', you'd only look for 'libfoo.a' of course.
> 

No, but it's not a bad idea.  Also, the path for the search for the .dll files
could be modified to search in more logical places such as /bin, /usr/bin,
/usr/local/bin and the windows system directory so that the symlinks wouldn't
be needed.

Cheers,

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