Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:16:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, 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: <199712072016.NAA28018@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199712070640.RAA00701@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 7, 97 05:10:07 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? > > Fairly obviously, no. Shared libraries are built PIC, as their load > address is not known (and may vary across different mappings of a given > copy). Static libraries are fixed up at link time, as offsets in them > are relative to their position in the executable, which is loaded at a > known (fixed) address. rpc.motifd Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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