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Date:      Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:57:31 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Suffix change for PIC object files 
Message-ID:  <199901052157.QAA40131@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:52:36 PST." <XFMail.990105135236.jdp@polstra.com> 
References:  <XFMail.990105135236.jdp@polstra.com> 

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> I want to commit a change which I believe will have zero impact on
> anybody.  The change is broad in scope, so I thought I'd better check
> to make sure it won't cause unanticipated problems.
> 
> What I want to do is modify <bsd.lib.mk> and a couple of assorted
> Makefiles, to change the filename suffix for PIC object files used in
> building shared libraries from ".so" to ".So".  The reason is that
> the existing suffix conflicts with the standard suffix for shared
> libraries that are loaded with dlopen().  One example of that is PAM
> modules.  Even ignoring PAM, we can expect to see more and more use of
> dlopen() in our tree as time goes on.

Sounds OK to me, for all that means.  I'd suggest that it might be useful
for the 'clean' target to nuke the old suffix for a while.

louie



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