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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:13:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, hsu@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shared library with static Motif?
Message-ID:  <199712072013.NAA27830@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712062317.QAA06878@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 6, 97 04:17:06 pm

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> But, aside from legalities the real issue hasn't been answered.  Is it
> *technically* possible to link in a 'static' library into a 'shared'
> library so that the end-user doesn't need a Motif library to get access
> to the shared library?

Yes.  There are about 5 ways I can think of off the top of my head,
starting with a proxy server that you IPC to to get the desired effect.

Actually, you might be able to do this one legally, with high overhead:
you could write the proxy server in JAVA.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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