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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> I've kind of abused SHLIBDIR in the Makefiles. If someone with more
> make-foo could look it over. I've probably violated style all over
> the place. Comments are welcome.

SHLIBDIR's main use was to support a dynamically linked /bin and /sbin.
I used it for this for many years until I learned what a bad idea shared
libraries are.

Bruce