From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 08:38:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA13782 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tower.my.domain (nscs24p20.remote.umass.edu [128.119.179.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA13772 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gp@tower.my.domain) Received: (from root@localhost) by tower.my.domain (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16934 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:37:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gp) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 14:04:28 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Pavelcak To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linked Libraries Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don't know if there's a short answer to this, but I have seen "statically" and "dynamically" linked libraries mentioned. Recently in reading the Makefile for cvsup I noticed I can choose to statically link the modula-3 libraries. What does all this mean? What are the advantages to choosing one over the other? Thanks. Greg