Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:52:44 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> To: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic Linking on FreeBSD 2.2.5 & AIX 3.2.5 Message-ID: <34BD41BC.4586A98F@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> References: <4A25658D.0074495F.00@notes.aipo.gov.au>
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Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au wrote:
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> I am writing to ask if FreeBSD 2.2.5 supports "dynamic linking" of
> libraries into a program at the time it is run (rather than the linker
> combining the objects and libraries into a loadable module when the program
> is compiled) ?
>
support
> (MS may call this facility Dynamic Link Libraries; one OS reference
> (Dietel) calls it Dynamic Loading.)
>
> If it doesn't, how does one escape re-compiling everything when a core
> library such as libc or libresolv is replaced, when one moves for example.
> from Bind-4 to Bind-8 ?
>
> I'm sorry to be so ignorant about this but I haven't seen any mention of
> these matters in the Sys Admin references suggested by the handbooks
> bibliography (Fraesch, Nemeth et al).
>
> How do commercial Unixes (such as AIX 3.2.5) deal with this ? While I'm
> always comfortable re-installing FreeBSD, AIX is another matter.
>
Don't know about AIX 3.2.5, AIX 4.1 support ;)
> Thank you very much,
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> S Hopcroft
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