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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Anyone got GNU `dld' ported to FreeBSD?
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:32:28 -0700 (MST)
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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.
> 
> What is your problem exactly when you try to use dlopen in a statically
> compiled program?

The dynamic linking code is in the crt0.o, since it must be static
in the binary in order to be used to implement shared library mapping.

It is *not* in the non-shared library crt0.o.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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