Date: 15 Jan 1998 21:44:52 -0600 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic Linking on FreeBSD 2.2.5 & AIX 3.2.5 Message-ID: <85btxdkrpn.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:22:07 %2B1000" References: <4A25658D.0074495F.00@notes.aipo.gov.au>
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Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au writes: > 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. AIX also support shared libraries, certainly since 3.2.5, and continues to support it today. In fact, AIX's binary compatibility, which allows you to run binaries built on 3.2.5 on any version of AIX thereafter, works best with shared libraries. Having shared libraries allows IBM to change the implementation of library function, change library functions to system calls and vice versa, and have it all continue to work. -Dave (who develops AIX in Austin, TX)
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