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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking
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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I would suggest that it is probably best not to link with 50
> shared libs, but with only one vs. 2-3, it is best to go all of
> the way, and link with all three shared. 

That reminds me...Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris comes
with a whopping 51 shared libraries.  They seem to be trying to
inflict all dimensions of DLL Hell (tm) on Unix as well...

-john


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