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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Dumb question:

Given that it is desired for sysintall to load shared objects shouldnt
it be compiled as a shareable object ?

One thing comes to mind and thats the size of libc.a so maybe the
dynamic loader could be hacked to load a gzip libc.a?

     Cheers,
     Amancio