From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Oct 12 00:28:17 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04817
          for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions)
Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04803
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE)
Received: (from helbig@localhost)
	by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA09554;
	Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:28:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
Message-Id: <199710120728.JAA09554@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: shared libraries
In-Reply-To: <344026A3.A0E4D0FA@gte.net> from "Michael E. Mercer" at "Oct 12, 97 01:23:48 am"
To: mercer28@gte.net (Michael E. Mercer)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:28:03 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> hello all!
> 
>     Please bare with me. I am compiling a program that uses the library
> libgnumalloc.a
> It does not exist. However libgnumalloc.so.2.0 does exist. I think ( uh
> oh He's thinking)

This only exists to support binaries compiled a long time ago.
Delete the -lgnumalloc flag from your loader flags and everything
should work fine--the functionality is already provided
in libc.

Wolfgang