Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:00:54 +0100 From: Paolo Pisati <piso@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>, Paolo Pisati <piso@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 108717 for review Message-ID: <20061030140054.GA1750@tin.it> In-Reply-To: <20061030140301.q7ko5hlezo0wk04s@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <200610300915.k9U9Fpp4079193@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061030140301.q7ko5hlezo0wk04s@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > If nobody links with them directly (for example if those are plugins > which are loaded at runtime only when they are needed), you can use > OLD_FILES for them instead of OLD_LIBS. > > The goal of OLD_LIBS is to not remove libs which may break > applications when they are not available. For this reason symlinks to > libs and static libs (libXXX.a) are removed with OLD_FILES, it doesn't > hurt at program startup time if those are not available. ok, i'll use OLD_FILES then. bye -- Paolo Piso's first law: nothing works as expected!
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