From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 7 12:14:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA18404 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA18397; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13248; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:26:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd013237; Sun Dec 7 13:26:46 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27830; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:13:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712072013.NAA27830@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: shared library with static Motif? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:13:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, hsu@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@hub.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199712062317.QAA06878@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 6, 97 04:17:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.