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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic Linking on FreeBSD 2.2.5 & AIX 3.2.5
To: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Smack me if I misunderstood but are you asking about shared objects?
The generally have *.so naming convention. This is what DLL in windorz
was monkeyed after.
The reason you wont find it in any administration books is because
this is more of a development/coding thing.

Rudy

---Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au wrote:
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> 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) ?
> 
> (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.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> 
> S Hopcroft
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> 

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