Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:32:44 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic Linking on FreeBSD 2.2.5 & AIX 3.2.5 Message-ID: <19980115233244.5263.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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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: > > > > > > > > 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 > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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