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From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: BSD library HOWTO?
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Hi all,

I found some general guidelines in the Developer's Handbook, but is there a
more detailed HOWTO somewhere on setting up and using a library?  I'd like
to get the whole low-down on sonames, links to libraries, compiling versus
linking library names, and so on.

jm
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