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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone got GNU `dld' ported to FreeBSD? 
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 96 11:35:08 -0800
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
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> Ours works just fine too, but I can't use dynamic linking from a
> statically-linked application, which is what sysinstall needs to be.

Dynamic linking == modules are linked in before main() is entered.
Runtime linking == modules can be linked in on the fly (from main()
		   or any routine called from it)

I believe you should be able to do runtime linking from your
statically linked app. too.  I vaguely recall Paul
Kranenburg made some changes in June/July timeframe that
made this possible.  I can be mistaken though as I haven't
played with this in a while.